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For Canada Day, a lyrics meme. Guess the song/artist.

All lyrics from songs written and/or sung by Canadian artists:

1. When the sun turns traitor cold and all the trees are shivering in a naked row
2. I will give you all I could ever give, though it's less than you will need
3. I can tell by the big spuds on the back of your rig you must be a spud picker from Prince Edward Island.
4. On the other side of Winnipeg, Neil and the Squires played the Zone
5. I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet
6. You took advantage of a world that loved you well
7. I am your brilliance and frustration
8. And I gotta catch a noon train, gotta be there on time
9. And the rum was better and it came in bigger bottles and the revenue cutters were slow
10. Sweating like a weather’s vein, coughing thunder, sneezing rain
11. Well, I've got twenty dollars and I know that it can get us by the door
12. Security couldn't get her down, she was welded to the eagle's beak
13. But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
14. A thousand sharpened elbows in the underground
15. Here by my side, a new colour to paint the world


I should have one of these for the Fourth of July, unless the sky falls. Since I'm feeling less lazy, I'm off to write and stuff.

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Date: 2008-07-02 12:45 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] primroseburrows.livejournal.com
Yes. And no, it's not 'Bud the Spud'.

Hint: The original song was written by an Australian and made famous by an American. Tom added extra lyrics to make it Canadian. Like you do. :)

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Date: 2008-07-02 12:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tarimanveri.livejournal.com
Alas, that's all I have. Or at least, without googling. I was probably thinking of "Bud the Spud." I've never actually heard it, or any other Stompin' Tom up to and including "The Hockey Song," though. I need a traditional Canadian folksong version, maybe with a little Stan Rogers and Ian and Sylvia and Joni Mitchell and Great Big Sea thrown in. I could rock that...

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Date: 2008-07-02 04:17 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] primroseburrows.livejournal.com
there might be some Stan Rogers and some Joni on the list

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Date: 2008-07-02 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tarimanveri.livejournal.com
But my familiarity with their work might be limited to Fogarty's Cove and Blue...

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