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Take Me Back to Dear Old Canada

Traditional

“Take Me Back to Dear Old Canada” as printed in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).

Traditional: Collected Lyrics Text 290 1918 · historical text
Public domainSoldier songHistorical song
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This text comes from The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

Take me back to dear old Canada,

Put me on the boat for old St. John,

Take me over there, drop me anywhere,

Toronto, Hull or Montreal, well I don't care.

I should love to see my best girl,

Cuddling up again we soon should be, Whoa,

Tiddley, iddley, ighty, I'd sooner be there than Blighty,

Canada is the place for me.

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Written by Traditional

Traditional words. Historical text published in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918), “Take Me Back to Dear Old Canada”

The 1918 published edition is in the public domain in the United States (pre-1931 publication). Entries whose credited author died more than 70 years ago are also in the public domain in life-plus-70 jurisdictions; other entries are held.

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