The Maple Leaf Forever (High Audio)

A repost of the old Canadian patriotic song, with pictures from the surface of Mars. (Just kidding.)

In Days of yore,
From Britain's shore
Wolfe the dauntless hero came
And planted firm Britannia's flag
On Canada's fair domain.
Here may it wave,
Our boast, our pride
And joined in love together,
The thistle, shamrock, rose entwined,
The Maple Leaf Forever.

[CHORUS]
The Maple Leaf
Our Emblem Dear,
The Maple Leaf Forever.
God save our Queen and heaven bless,
The Maple Leaf Forever.

At Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane
Our brave fathers side by side
For freedom's home and loved ones dear,
Firmly stood and nobly died.
And so their rights which they maintained,
We swear to yeild them never.
Our watchword ever more shall be
The Maple Leaf Forever

[CHORUS]

Our fair Dominion now extends
From Cape Race to Nootka Sound
May peace forever be our lot
And plenty a store abound
And may those ties of love be ours
Which discord cannot sever
And flourish green for freedom's home
The Maple Leaf Forever.

Tangentially, I must say I hate, hate, HATE using Windows movie maker. On my machine, at least, it will freeze and hang and generally be uncooperative, even when it's the only program running, and even when I am working on something simple. Ah well..... until I find something better.....

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Music

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• maple
• leaf
• forever
• canadian
• anthem
• national

[SplinterCelll38]

@Falwren So True...

[PatchesRips]

@Falwren "still sore about leaving your own country "

No, I'm sore about people like you trying to pretend this country isn't Canada, but some ersatz Britain. And if it's British this and British that you want to wallow in, then you're more than more than welcome to make use of your right to leave. Britain's that little island across the Atlantic. It's a bit of a walk, but if you start now, I'm sure you could be there for Guy Fawkes Day. I like that Canada finally likes being CANADA. I'll stay.

[PatchesRips]

@Falwren "I presume you must be a recent immigrant"

Yet another mistaken presumption on your part. Based merely upon YOUR attitudes, I'd tend to presume someone had dug you up out of a pre-Depression era graveyard, but in that case you probably couldn't make heads or tails of the internet, so I've discounted it. You're simply a modern holdover to attitudes of ethnic bigotry that were once de rigeur in this country.

The only immigrants in my family are my mother's parents: British.

[PatchesRips]

@Falwren "I've heard them in public several times in the last 10 years"

Really? Where?

"The only embarassment is you, since you seem so intent on destroying our heritage and legacy."

The real embarrassment to any community are those luddites who cannot acknowledge that a society, like a person, changes over time in tastes and attitudes, but insist its character is carved immutable for all time. Feel free to move back to 1940 if you can find your way. I live in 2011, and prefer it here.

[Falwren]

@SplinterCelll38

Don't bother arguing with this troll any further, he just has a vendetta against anything British. He's probably been taught so in school, being Irish, so this isn't entirely his fault. Surely when he came to Canada, he was so outraged by the widespread use of British symbols and traditions and widespread liking for them, that he needed to reinflate his ego by going on here and trolling any British Canadian heritage videos.

[Falwren]

@PatchesRips

I presume you must be a recent immigrant, still sore about leaving your own country that you have to try and dismantle mine. We were founded on the British legal system, the British parliamentary system, the English language and (save Quebec for both) British culture. If you have such a problem with these facts, then you are more then welcome to make use of our right to leave. There's a republic just a few kilometres south.

[Falwren]

@PatchesRips

I was only mentioning that event in response to the person above who commented about shelling Quebec city, as to say that both sides need to get over it.

I'm not sure where you've been, but I've heard them in public several times in the last 10 years, let alone 50. The only embarassment is you, since you seem so intent on destroying our heritage and legacy.

[PatchesRips]

@SplinterCelll38 "In my Canada, Canada is a nation."

No it isn't. Your Canada is palpably a colonial possession, that takes pride in the accomplishments of another country, sings paeans to another country's flag, and creams all over another country's head of state. Well, you Col. Blimps have fun with that old imperial sunset. The rest of us are going to get on with Canada, the country. And yeah, tough knobs, that DOES include Quebec, and its sensibilities, too.

[PatchesRips]

@SplinterCelll38 "Well, you've done nothing but convince me that Quebec should jut leave and stop sucking our money."

Well, blithe idiots like you set them on that road about fifty years ago, so keep investing in your xenophobia and you'll get your wish sooner or later.

"You should join them and stop weakening our nation."

Oh, what "weakens" our nation? Anybody who's doesn't break out in crygasms at the sight of a foreign flag like you do?

[PatchesRips]

@SplinterCelll38 "Next, you'll argue we need to have close ties with the United States."

I don't advocate close ties with United ANYTHING; Kingdom or States. I like Canada. Other countries are other counties. I don't need to sing about them when I'm supposed to be singing about mine. That's why the new lyrics to The Maple Leaf Forever are infinitely preferable to the old. They're about Canada, not a bunch of limies and wanna-be limies roaming around on it.