Canadian Pacific

I rode your ocean liner to New Foundland
Where I made living in an iron mine
When I got my fill I went to Nova Scotia
And I fished the salty waters for a time
Passing through Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
I could see the Rocks And cliffs of salt and stone
listening to the sea gulls calling to each other
made me miss my darling and my distant home
 
                  chorus
Canadian pacific 
carry me three thousand miles
through the valley and the forest
to the sunshine of her smile
cross the plains and the rugged mountains
keep this wondering boy from harm
Canadian pacific
take me to my baby's arms
 
The Atlantic disappeared on the horizon
and backward I was waving going down the track
for awhile I drove a truck to keep from starving
in Ontario I was a lumberjack
Manitoba and Saskatchewan soon followed
Where the wheat fields and the old red river flowed
in the quiet hours whistling on the prairie 
Touched my heart and set my memories aglow
 
 
 I could feel the nearness of her warm sweet kisses
when you rolled into Alberta westward bound
I worked on an oilrig to make some money 
For a ticket to the sweetest girl around
pushin on past lake Louise in all it's splendor
where the trees and Rockies touch the sky above
I got to British Columbia and heaven
on your tracks I made it back to my true love