Day 45
This song has always been one of my favorites. Written to help celebrate Canada’s centennial celebration, it’s an ambitious song that’s played in three parts and tells of the building of the railroad across that country. A saga in itself, it says much about the men who worked and lived and died to make that dream come true.
Oh there was a time in this fair land
When the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains
Stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and
Long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent
To be real
Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Gordon Lightfoot
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This is another one of Gord's 'long' songs that he sang alot before the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Even the audience would get into the foot stomping when he played it.
At one of the more recent concerts I attended, he told the audience we could have The Trilogy or the Edmund Fitzgerald but we probably weren't going to get both. I think he did do both.
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