Aug 25, 2010
Words and Music to Share

You might recall I mentioned Joe Stanton in my final post from the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. He played a few tunes on Voyageur as the part of the musical finale to the festival - including one he wrote especially for the occasion. Joe wrote to tell me he's recorded the song and you can hear it online here.
He also sent me the lyrics to share with you and they are posted here with his permission.
Thank you, Joe, very much.

This is our home - a song for the Voyageur guitar
(copyright - Joe Stanton)

In the spring we left the St. Lawrence
Like a thousand canoes before us
Voyageurs in a land where the endless rivers flow
In July we get to the lakehead
Turned around just in time to make it
Back to Montreal before the first snow

This is our home
This is our home
A million miles to roam
This is our home
This is our home

From the docks of old Odessa
Out to the Red River
My Grandfather came when he was just a boy
Pulling stumps and picking rocks
Planting seeds from a precious box
They carried all the way from Winnipeg to Moose Jaw

This is our home
This is our home
Built of mud and stone
Where the wheat fields grow
This is our home

From the banks of the Yangtze River
To the cliffs of the Fraser canyon
We came to build
A Canadian Pacific Railroad
For a dollar a day we swing our hammers
A world away from our ancestors
And for every mile of track we lay a man in the ground

This is our home
This is our home
Bought with blood and bone
To make the steel wheels roll
This is our home

We’re the Iroquois and the Blackfoot
The Haida and the Salish
We call ourselves the people who were here before
We say Mankind is many rivers
All equal and flowing together
With the Eagle and the Bear and the Sky and the Buffalo

This is our home
This is our home
The places we were born
Where our children grow

This is our home
This is our home
A million miles to roam
Where endless river’s flow
This is our home
This is our home

Posted at 12:36 PM

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