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Gordon Lightfoot
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
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The “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” is a song by Gordon Lightfoot that describes the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
This song was commissioned by the CBC for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967, to start Canada’s Centennial year. It appeared on Lightfoot’s The Way I Feel album later in the same year along with the song “Crossroads,“ a shorter song of similar theme. The structure of the song, with a slow tempo section in the middle and faster paced sections at the beginning and end, was patterned more or less opposite to Gibson & Camp’s “Civil War Trilogy” (famously recorded by The Limeliters on the 1963 live album Our Men In San Francisco). In the first section, the song picks up speed like a locomotive building up a head of steam.
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Read on...Song lines: ♪ When the green dark forest was too silent to be real ... We are the navvies who work upon the railway ... Open 'er heart let the life blood flow ♫
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