The most Canadian song ever

Who knows how to make love stay - Doug and the Slugs

 

“The Lumberjack Song”, one of Micheal Palin’s masterpieces.

 

Maybe not the most Canadian, but it has all the earmarks of a particularly Canadian type of song. Fifty Mission Cap follows the structure of shanties and fits into the later pop tradition of tragic story songs. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably the best known of this genre.

Here it is.

And Gordon Lightfoot's classic:

Gonna leave this here, too. I'm a fan of Ask a Mortician and this is one of her best episodes.

 

Fifty Mission Cap was always a huge hit at Toronto shows, particularly at Air Canada Centre, when the spotlight would shine on the banner displaying Bill Barilko's picture and retired number as the band played the song.