It's Hockey Night in Canada . . .

A great song written from the perspective of a girl (Lynn Miles) growing up in Canada, where ice hockey takes over the airwaves and the minds of men from October till May. Lynn's father was a hockey coach. The song is about memories she has of walking home through the snow and seeing television sets glowing blue in living room windows.

It's hockey night in Canada

There is a blue glow in every window

And I am walking home alone again

In the freshly fallen frozen snow

With my heart beneath my duffle coat

My dreams turning to icicles

I wish there was a sunny summer sky

And I was cruising on my bicycle

And I would wait

For all the lights to change to green

And I would race right through

And take it down the afternoon avenue

That's what I would do

But there's just these skating rinks

And the boys always get their way

It seems like it's hockey night in Canada

Almost every single day

They are clearing my street again

Trying to deny the season

And I want so much to disagree with them

But they refuse to hear my reason

There is a zamboni of sorts in all our souls

And the streets of old Montreal are cold

Equal ice time is all we need

To catch our breath and build our speed

And we would wait

For all the lights to change to green

And we would march right through

And take it down the afternoon avenue

That's what we would do

But there's just these skating rinks

And the boys always get their way

It seems like it's hockey night in Canada

Almost every single day

What are you watching tonight . . . ?