Dar Williams - O Canada Girls Lyrics
If I did not dream who would you beAnd if you did not dream who would I beYes, there is gold in this mountainThis they cannot mineTell me who they need it forI'll tell you now, they need me moreO Canada girlsI have seen you in your sweatersIn the late-night sun at WinnipegGrowing up with friends and so unhurriedWith your secrets I believeKept in the longer sleeveOh girlsHighways seen from hotel windowsPumping highway bloodIf I say they run from fearAre things much different standing hereO Canada girlsWhen I saw the geese flying northI remembered the friends of my visionAnd a sense I had of other wingsLike faith, light threaded through a psalmLike our boys fleeing VietnamOh girlsIf I drove up eighty-sevenUp past MontrealFollowing the bluest veinsFollowing through icy rainsWould I emerge in the presentAnd know just where to beginI'm so sick of forgetting myself to remember who I amAnd you say yeah, but why so cold, and so CanadianI guess it's got to feel like some exodusAnd if I succeed, well there will be more of usAnd if I don't well I don't really knowGirlsWho have found our unsung nationWhere we left so much land to itselfThat everyone had her own mountainWell if you think of this girl and the dreams that made herWrite your secrets on hornet nest paperAnd blow it high across the border'Cause if you did not dream, who would I beAnd if I did not dream who would you be
