The Soundtrack to my journey

When you listen to a song, it often brings back associations of where you were at the time, who you were with and what you were doing.

For example, I listen to "When you say Nothing at all" by Ronan Keating on my Ipod and it transports me to watching my brother's wedding dance almost two years ago and what a great party that was.

For better or worse, my time in Canada so far has been soundtracked to old U2 music and a Canadian comedy band called The Arrogant Worms
http://www.arrogant-worms.com/

Since moving to Calgary, I have been introduced to The Arrogant Worms , a very clever and funny band, and at times, politically incorrect or politically astute, whichever way you prefer to look at it. The band consists mostly of 3 guys singing and a few acoustic guitars. One of my favourites is Canada's Really Big, which I'll include the lyrics to here. Firstly though, an extract from Proud to be Canadian.

We're proud to be Canadian.(proud to be Canadian)
We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse.
(Can I get the door for you ma'am?)
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian.(it's cool cause it's cold up here)
We won't say that we're better, it's just that we're less worse.



Canada's Really Big

(spoken)
thank you very much
now we're very, uh, we're very patriotic canadians
and we'd like to take this moment to,
uh, to do our national anthem, that we wrote

When i look around me, i can't believe what i see
it seems as if this country has lost its will to live
the economy is lousy, we barely have an army
but we can still stand proudly because canada's really big
we're the second largest country on this planet earth
and if Russia keeps on shrinking, then soon we'll be first!
(as long as we keep quebec)

The USA has tanks, and switzerland has banks
they can keep them thanks, they just don't amount
cause when you get down to it, you find out what the truth is,
it isn't what you do with it, it's the size that counts
most people will tell you that france is pretty large
but you can put fourteen frances into this land of ours!
(it'd take a lot of work, it'd take a whole lot of work)

we're larger than malaysia, almost as big as asia
we're bigger than australia and it's a continent
so big we seldom bother to go see one another
but we often go to other countries for vacations
our mountains are very pointy, our prairies are not
the rest is kinda bumpy, but man do we have a lot!
(we've got a lot of land, we've got a whole lot of land)

so stand up and be proud and sing it very loud
we stand out from the crowd, cause Canada's really big