O Canada Girls
Dar Williams
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Cadd9 And if I did not dream, who would you be?Cadd9 And if you did not dream, who would I be?G D Yes, there is gold in this mountainG D This they cannot mineC Am Tell me who they need it forC I'll tell you now, they need me moreEm O Canada girlsD Am Em I have seen you in your sweatersD Am Em In the late-night sun at WinnipegD Am Growing up with friends, and soEm unhurriedD D With your secrets, I believeD Kept in the longer sleeveEm D Em D Oh, girlsG D Highways seen from hotel windowsContinues after the adG D Pumping highway bloodC Am If I say they run from fearC C Are things much different standing here?Em O Canada girlsD Am Em When I saw the geese flying northD Am I remembered the friends of myEm visionD Am Em And a sense I had of other wingsD D Like faith, light threaded through a psalmD D Like our boys fleeing VietnamEm D Em D Oh, girlsG D If I drove up 87G D Up past MontrealC Am Following the bluest veinsC Am Following through icy rainsAm D Would I emerge in the presentAm D And know just where to begin?Am D I'm so sick of forgetting myselfEm to remember who I amC D And you say, yeah, but why soEm cold, and so Canadian?C D Well, I guess it's gotta feel like some exodusC D And if I succeed, well, there will be more of usC D And if I don't, well, I don't really knowEm D Am Girls, who have found our unsungEm nationD Am Em Where we left so much land to itselfD Am Em That everyone had her own mountainD Well, if you think of this girl andD the dreams that made herCadd9 Write your secrets on hornet-nest paperD G And blow it high across the borderDCadd9 'Cause if you did not dream, who would I be?Cadd9 And if I did not dream, who would you be?