Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave 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 Article-I.D.: lsuc.804 Posted: Tue Sep 24 12:28:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 12:41:45 EDT References: <347@zaphod.UUCP> <3900015@csd2.UUCP> <2537@watcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 35 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 -- { ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!dave