LL-L "Songs" 2007.05.25 (01) [E]

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From: "Rikus Kiers" <kiersbv at tiscali.nl>
Subject: song

Dear Lowlanders,

A friend of mine is looking for an English song about birches and bevers.

She reminds only:

Land of the silver birch/home of the bever.

Does anybody know this song and things around it, like origin etc?
Rikus Kiers

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Songs

Hoi, Rikus!

It's easily googled when "beaver" is spelled correctly.

Here are the words and the tune in Midi format:

http://members.shaw.ca/tunebook/birch.htm

Here's a choral renditions in MP3 format:
http://folkbrigade.ca/Sounds/M3U/SilverBirch.m3u

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.

I believe the composer deliberately made the tune sound somewhat
"Indianesque."

Here the words:
Land of the silver birch,
Home of the beaver
Where still the mighty moose
Wanders at will
*Refrain:*
Blue lake and rocky shore,
I will return once more
Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, bo-oo-oom
My heart is sick for you,
Here in the lowlands,
I will return to you,
Hills of the north
*Refrain* Swift as the silver fish,
Canoe of birch bark
Thy mighty waterways
Carry me forth
*Refrain* Here where the blue lake lies,
I'll set my wigwam
Close to the water's edge,
Silent and still
*Refrain*Regards, and say hi to your friend!

Reinhard/Ron

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