Description
PRICE SLASHED! This is the second volume of the Canada Is For Kids music chart collection.
It includes: Black Fly Song – seen on a National Film Board vignette about the nasty little beasts that inhabit North Ontario; Coal Town Road – about the hard life of coal miners and the ‘pit ponies’ that used to work beside them; Headed for Canada – the story of an Irish immigrant sailing to Canada to escape the hardships of his native home; Little Old Sod Shanty – a prairie so buster’s life on a government claim; Au chante de l’Alouette – a traditional French Canadian voyageur and coureur de bois song; We’re All Looking for a Dinosaur – Michael wrote this one for Sesame Street about the dinosaurs that used to roam this land; Water – Michael wrote this one for what we consider ‘good’ water and ‘bad’ water in this country; Where the Coho Flash Silver – A west coast salmon trawler’s quest for those famous silver fishes; Un canadien Errant – An exquisitely orchestrated and mournful tune about the MacKenzie – Papineau Rebellion of 1837; Red River Cart Song – the pioneer trek to Edmonton along the Calgary Trail; Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor – another rousing Newfoundland favourite; Land of the Silver Birch – a paddling song with a more aboriginal perspective; Maple Sugar Time – Michael wrote this about a favourite Eastern Canadian pastime — gathering up the maple syrup and having fun at a traditional cabane a sucre.
