In honor of the Canadian Women's Hockey team - and what they have been able to achieve at the Winter Games! Another great Stompin' Tom Connors tune. Enjoy!
Showing posts with label hockey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hockey. Show all posts
Friday, February 26, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
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 . . . ?
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Hockey Night in Canada,
Lynn Miles,
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