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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball,can.general
Subject: Re: O Canada vs. New York
Message-ID: <804@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 12:28:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 12:28:09 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 12:41:45 EDT
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Toronto fans DID boo "O Canada" once

In article <2537@watcgl.UUCP> sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman) writes:
>Isaac Dimitrovsky writes (from New York) about the running O Canada controversy:
>
>>Oh well, I don't think anybody in Canada knows the words either.
>>
>Um, do you have any statistics to back up this strange statement?  I know
>it's sort of a running gag up here that nobody knows the words (especially
>since a slight modification of the first verse a few years ago) but
>never have I met any Canadian who doesn't know either the new version
>or the old version.  They do teach this in school!

Actually, they don't teach all the words in school. A couple of
years ago, the person invited to sing the anthems at Exhibition
Stadium sang the words to the second verse. Toronto fans, not
realizing what he was doing and thinking he was making up new
words, booed him! What's worse, the Toronto newspapers picked up the
story that he'd made up new words and published it. Not until a
day later did the editors realize that it was the second verse.

	O Canada
	Where pines and maples grow
	Great prairies spread
	And lordly rivers flow
	How dear to us thy broad domain
	From east to western sea
	Thy land of hope for all who toil
	We stand on guard for thee

(I think that's right. I learned it many years ago.)

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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