PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "The Maple Leaf Forever", by Alexander Muir, modified
lyrics by Vladimir Radian 1997.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013, updated 2015, 2017, and 2018.
FURTHER SONGS ON THE SAME THEME: For other nostalgic takes on Canada's national hymns, you can view (and sing along with) ...
post #22 (February 2014) The Maple Leaf Ad Infinitum
post #65 (January 2015) Flight of the Loonie
post #181 (June 2018) Something to Groan About
ORIGINAL SONG: "The Maple Leaf Forever", by Alexander Muir, modified
lyrics by Vladimir Radian 1997.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013, updated 2015, 2017, and 2018.
FURTHER SONGS ON THE SAME THEME: For other nostalgic takes on Canada's national hymns, you can view (and sing along with) ...
post #22 (February 2014) The Maple Leaf Ad Infinitum
post #65 (January 2015) Flight of the Loonie
post #181 (June 2018) Something to Groan About
You can also view these lyrics and commentary (without images or chords) displayed on a parody-lyrics website at AmIRight.com Post "Canadian Reunion".
CANADIAN
Our mentors taught Muir's stirring song;
It eulogized forefathers’ feats,
Didn’t help us to belong.
As baby-boomers, second-gen,
As baby-boomers, second-gen,
Homes shaped by cookie-cutters;
Its patriotic sentiments
Of insight only traces -
Muir's “Maple Leaf” excluded half
Our country’s founding races.
Though reg’ments touted it their tune,
And Anglo journals ranted,
Decades ago, “O Canada”
Muir’s time-worn chant supplanted.
More recent play: ere Y-2-K,
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Ann Murray sings Maple Leaf Gardens
February, 2013
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So flourished a new pluralist "Leaf"
By songwright Vlad Radian.
Its fabled British glory tamed,
No heaven or hegemony;
Olympic Closing half-time showed,
While "O (Canada)" did Ceremonies.
Its reassembled mission clear,
A newfound "Feuille" quite clever --
Anne Murray sang, The Gardens closed:
The Maple Leafs forever.
Five decades late, we congregate,
Our Grade Eight class remembered,
No “Maple” hymn heard in the gym -
The song’s appeal now severed.
Reprise:
Reprise:
Last year Muir's ancient fabled tree
Was felled by stormy weather*.
Still sometimes heard, but seldom hymned --
The Maple Leaf Forever.
* an ancient maple, that presumably had inspired
Muir’s lyrics, was destroyed by a storm in July 2013.
HOTLINKS TO OTHER CANADIAN-THEMED SONG-POSTINGS
Canadian Reunion (see below)
..AND A FEW LIMERICK-BASED SONGS
Canada Day 2015 (singable limericks)
UKULELE-FRIENDLY FORMAT
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