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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 25 May 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: "Rikus Kiers" <<a href="mailto:kiersbv@tiscali.nl">kiersbv@tiscali.nl</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: song</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Dear Lowlanders,</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">A friend of mine is looking for an English song about
birches and bevers.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">She reminds only:</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Land of the silver birch/home of the bever.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Does anybody know this song and things around it,
like origin etc?</span></font></p>
<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Rikus
Kiers<br><br>----------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Songs<br><br>Hoi, Rikus!<br><br>It's easily googled when "beaver" is</span></font>
<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> spelled</span></font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">
correctly.<br><br>Here are the words and the tune in Midi format:<br><br><a href="http://members.shaw.ca/tunebook/birch.htm">http://members.shaw.ca/tunebook/birch.htm</a><br><br>Here's a choral renditions in MP3 format:
<br><a href="http://folkbrigade.ca/Sounds/M3U/SilverBirch.m3u">http://folkbrigade.ca/Sounds/M3U/SilverBirch.m3u</a><br><br>Not much seems to be known about the song except that it began in the 1930s and is particularly popular among Canadian boy and girl scouts.
<br><br>I believe the composer deliberately made the tune sound somewhat "Indianesque."<br><br>Here the words:<br></span></font><dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd>Land of the silver birch,<br>
Home of the beaver<br>
Where still the mighty moose<br>
Wanders at will<br></dd></dl>
<dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd><i>Refrain:</i><br>
Blue lake and rocky shore,<br>
I will return once more<br>
Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, bo-oo-oom<br></dd></dl>
<dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd>My heart is sick for you,<br>
Here in the lowlands,<br>
I will return to you,<br>
Hills of the north<br></dd></dl>
<dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd><i>Refrain</i></dd></dl>
<dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd>Swift as the silver fish,<br>
Canoe of birch bark<br>
Thy mighty waterways<br>
Carry me forth<br></dd></dl>
<dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd><i>Refrain</i></dd></dl>
<dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd>Here where the blue lake lies,<br>
I'll set my wigwam<br>
Close to the water's edge,<br>
Silent and still<br></dd></dl>
<dl style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><dd><i>Refrain</i></dd></dl><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards, and say hi to your friend!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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