Canadian Pacific Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Snow
Canadian Pacific
Recorded by Hank Snow
Written by Ray Griff
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I rode your ocean liner to New
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foundland
Where I
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made a living in an iron
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mine
When I
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got my fill I went to Nova
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Scotia
And I
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fished the salty waters for a
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time
Passing
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through Prince Edward Island and New
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Brunswick
I could
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see the rocks and cliffs of solid
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stone
Listening
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to the seagulls calling to each
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other
Made me miss my darling and my distant
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home
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cific
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carry me 3,000
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miles
Through the valleys and the
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forests
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To the sunshine of her
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smile
Cross the plains and the rugged
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mountains
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Keep this wandering boy from
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harm
Canadian
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Pacific
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take me to my baby's
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arms
The Atlantic disappeared on the
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horizon
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Quebec lay waiting for me down the
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track
For a
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while I drove a truck to keep from
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starving
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Ontario I was a lumber
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jack
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toba and Saskatchewan then
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followed
Where the
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wheat fields and the old Red River
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flowed
In the
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quiet hours your whistling on the
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prairie
Touched my heart and set my memories
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aglow
I could feel the nearness of her warm sweet
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kisses
When you
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rolled into Alberta westward
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bound
I worked
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on an oil rig to make some
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money
For a
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ticket to the sweetest girl
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around
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Pushing on past Lake Louise in all its
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splendor
Where the
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trees and Rockies touch the sky
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above
I got
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to British Columbia and
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heaven
On your track I made it back to my true
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love
Repeat #3
FAQ
Who sang the the song Canadian Pacific?
- The song Canadian Pacific was sang by Hank Snow.
Who is Hank Snow?
- Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 - December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. Most popular in the 1950s, he had a career that spanned more than 50 years, he recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. His number-one hits include the self-penned songs "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket" and "The Rhumba Boogie" and famous versions of "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", "Hello Love", as well as other top 10 hits.Snow was an accomplished songwriter whose clear, baritone voice expressed a wide range of emotions including the joys of freedom and travel as well as the anguish of tortured love. His music was rooted in his beginnings in small-town Nova Scotia where, as a frail, 80-pound youngster, he endured extreme poverty, beatings and psychological abuse as well as physically punishing labour during the Great Depression. Through it all, his musically talented mother provided the emotional support he needed to pursue his dream of becoming a famous entertainer like his idol, the country star, Jimmie Rodgers.As a performer of traditional country music, Snow won numerous awards and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The Hank Snow Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, celebrates his life and work in a province where his fans still see him as an inspirational figure who triumphed over personal adversity to become one of the most influential artists in all of country music.
