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Cypress Choral Music · Sweet Home Canada – SATB – Isabel Belina – arr. Mark Sirett

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Cypress Choral Music · 14) Sweet Home Canada – by Isabel Belina

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LYRICS

We all came from somewhere else – by land or sea or air,
and every journey is a story
Of why and when and where
And for each beats a heart
That in a language all its own
Says this beloved country is home.

Some of us came long ago, others last year
Leaving behind and war or famine
Fleeing a life of constant fear
Or just hoping for a second chance
A beVer place to be
Living happy and free!

Bridge: Out of the Pacific you can see the Rockies rise
Till they melt into the prairies under domed cathedral skies
Over lakes as big as countries, endless forests, rivers wide
To the ocean on the other side.
And It’s northward to the ArcJc over vast expanse of white
Where the Northern Lights they shimmer in the silence of the night
And you hear the birth of icebergs resonaJng in the deep
As the tundra sJlls in sleep.

As our history unfolds
We watch our children grow
Frolicking in our precious waters
Or in our wondrous snow
And as they play together in some old familiar game
See how we are all the same

Land of milk and honey
In this place of ice and snow
Where our dreams are always blooming
Even when the north wind blows
And no maVer where we choose to live
From sea to shining sea
We know here is where we want to be.

We all came from somewhere else
By land or sea or air,
and every journey is a story
Of why and when and where
And for each beats a heart
That in a language all its own
Says this beloved country
Oh Canada
This beloved country Sweet Home.