This song was written by Joe Grant of Canadian folk group "Tanglefoot". It is NOT a traditional song, but written in 1970 - 1980s Good friend of mine, worked the Yorkville club together in the Sixties - which I don't remember. Dave Martin
Oh, how we are so very proud of those who believed in our Canada, we are not Americans, we love Americans, but we are Canadians and are true to our heritage and our king!
I actually did learn about her just when I was in grade 7. It was a small note from the text book but our teacher made us watch a short documentary of Laura Secord to understand how Canada's success from the past. If only I found this song 1 year earlier before grade 8, I could've shown some friends and acknowledge this wonderful hero. Even with the classmates I had from the last year don't even remember Laura Secord.
There's something our dear Usonian friends don't always quite understand and that is as much as we admire the vitality of their creative spirit, that spirit has, historically included various attempts to annex Canada or portions of Canada, literally culturally or psychically (i.e. in terms of psyche, NOT ESP) and that the repulsion of this annexation is deeply, if subconsciously imbedded in the national mind. This song, written in a high period of nationalism (from the Centennial years of the mid-60s to the early 1980s), though a pastiche of a 19th century patriotic song, is VERY much indicative of the perennial sentiment (note the cheer from the audience at the high point of the song): you haven't always been our friends. You are now and may it stay that way, but please keep to your darn side of the 49th. Even that number and word 'the 49th parallel' has a great deal of gravity here, more than say, 'The Rio Grande' or 'The Maginot Line' - it is a sacred boundary imbued with a special energy; a permeable membrane, yes, but the line between two worlds. As for the comment below that it was 'The British' in the War of 1812, yes, but 'British North Americans' - i.e.: Canadians (with gun power from that Limey Mum).
Come all you brave young soldier lads With your strong and manly bearing I'll tell you a tale of a woman bold and her deed of honest daring Laura Secord was American-born in the state of Massachusets But she made her home in Canada and proved so faithful to us Chorus: There's American guns and 500 men So the warning must be given And Laura Ingersoll Secord was the stalwart heart Who braved the heat and the flies and the swamp To warn Colonel Fitzgibbon There's soldiers pounding at the door And they come from across the border American officers march inside It's food and drink they've ordered In comfort they have dined and drunk Their own success they've toasted But they pay no heed to the woman who hears their plan so idly boasted Oh, James I've overheard it all A surprise attack they're making Fitzgibbon they intend to smash His men for prisoners taking And James a warning never you'll take with your wounded knee and shoulder I myself must carry it past the sentries and the soldiers It's an all-day tramp to the British camp By way of Shipman's Corners There're snakes and flies and sweat in her eyes There is no respite for her She's lost her shoes in the muck of the bog Her feet are torn and blistered But there's many a soldier lad to be spared if the message be delivered So all you Yankee soldier lads who dare to cross our border Thinking to save us from ourselves Usurping British order There's women and men Canadians all Of every rank and station To stand on guard and keep us free From Yankee domination
You left out the several times "There's American guns and 500 men So the warning must be given And Laura Ingersoll Secord was the stalwart heart Who braved the heat and the flies and the swamp To warn Colonel Fitzgibbon" came up
"Laura Secord was American born in the state of Massachusettes But she made her home in Canada and proved so faithful to us" So basically me (but male). I am an American but I want to move to Canada one day. I hate this country and Canada will save me. God bless Canada.
@@Ziplat962 Oh yes, I see that Canada isn't doing too well right now. But I still have hope for it. I hope it's moistly fixed by the time I am able to hopefully sign up and get accepted for the Alberta opportunity stream as that seems like it's my only option as an 'unskilled' worker.
I’d like to invite the people who don’t think that it’s not Canadians but the British that beat the Americans in the war of 1812 to listen to this song
@@DominicBlair nope they didn’t they failed to achieve their goals an Indian buffer state, Maine (which the British held east port Maine until 1818) and Minnesota to control the upper Mississippi. And gave up on their native allies and stopped impressment. Losing these same native allies when they turned and sided with the Americans in the 2nd Treaty of Greenville of 1814 (this included the Shawnees). Come on man study will yah.
Sounds Irish to me, definitely can tell of Canada's Irish heritage. Love it!! I'm both Irish and Canadian and live near Canada in Aroostook county, ME.
@@metalhd7277 Canada didn't have a flag during the war of 1812, we just used the Union Jack. We did later get a unofficial flag in the 1860s and various others up until the 1960s. Canada never actually had a official flag until the 1960s when the Maple leaf modern one came out. Google is a very bad source to find correct Canadian flags but you can find some. This flag is from the late Victorian era the first widely used Canadian flag images.app.goo.gl/R9viJ5KbGPLLyrgz9
theirs's no such thing as an "Irish-American"... if someone has been imbued with American culture then that person is "American"... never a "hyphenated American"... as a "hyphenated American" is not an "American". And that go's for any country... if someone is not imbued with the culture of that country... then that person can not call them self's the title of someone of that country... i.e. they can not use the title of American or British or Canadian or Australian or New Zealand or French or German or Nigerian or what ever the name of people of any country. Its culture that go's in to make someone who they are... not a document saying... "citizen of"... and the name that Country... its culture noting more nothing less... just culture. Just before anyone gets it wrong and I end up with racist on my back... Race and Culture are NOT the same thing... both exist initially separate from one another... Culture is social behaviour and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, tradition's... basically Culture means "way of life"... and Race... does not. I just wanted to make that very very clear before anyone accuses me of being something as vile as a Racist... like Woke people like to do. (I mean Woke people are Racist by a different name... what's that saying... A Rose By Any Other Name Is Still A Rose.)
The song is called "Secord's Warning" by Tanglefoot
This wonderful song is called, "Secord's Warning" and was the signature song of Tanglefoot.
Tanglefoot of Norwood? Mr. Grant was my grade school French teacher.
Never them, always ourselves. God Save the King 🇨🇦🍁💪
This song was written by Joe Grant of Canadian folk group "Tanglefoot". It is NOT a traditional song, but written in 1970 - 1980s Good friend of mine, worked the Yorkville club together in the Sixties - which I don't remember. Dave Martin
Shush any Good song made in Canada becomes Traditional, Stan Rogers anyone?
Laura Secord is my great great great grandmother. No idea how many greats but yeah.
Oh, how we are so very proud of those who believed in our Canada, we are not Americans, we love Americans, but we are Canadians and are true to our heritage and our king!
Canadian pride intensifies! 💪 🇨🇦 🍁
Long live our glorious Queen of Canada!
I actually did learn about her just when I was in grade 7. It was a small note from the text book but our teacher made us watch a short documentary of Laura Secord to understand how Canada's success from the past. If only I found this song 1 year earlier before grade 8, I could've shown some friends and acknowledge this wonderful hero. Even with the classmates I had from the last year don't even remember Laura Secord.
Yankee Invaders: Canada is simply a matter of marching
Laura Secord and Col Fitzgibbon: Haha musket go boom
NAHH she was like “oh yeah it was a matter of marching alright 😅”
Lol
God save the queen
Nope
@@lecoindemur6346
Shut up frog loser
Oh shut up you troll
Nope. Canada don't need a stupid monarchy. Long live french and free Canada.
Sure but shoudnt be his priority
There's something our dear Usonian friends don't always quite understand and that is as much as we admire the vitality of their creative spirit, that spirit has, historically included various attempts to annex Canada or portions of Canada, literally culturally or psychically (i.e. in terms of psyche, NOT ESP) and that the repulsion of this annexation is deeply, if subconsciously imbedded in the national mind. This song, written in a high period of nationalism (from the Centennial years of the mid-60s to the early 1980s), though a pastiche of a 19th century patriotic song, is VERY much indicative of the perennial sentiment (note the cheer from the audience at the high point of the song): you haven't always been our friends. You are now and may it stay that way, but please keep to your darn side of the 49th. Even that number and word 'the 49th parallel' has a great deal of gravity here, more than say, 'The Rio Grande' or 'The Maginot Line' - it is a sacred boundary imbued with a special energy; a permeable membrane, yes, but the line between two worlds.
As for the comment below that it was 'The British' in the War of 1812, yes, but 'British North Americans' - i.e.: Canadians (with gun power from that Limey Mum).
Maple syrup makes everything taste sweeter,...including freedom!
The Laura Secord chocolate and ice cream chain began in 1913 on the 100th anniversary of her historic walk.
Thank god for this woman.
I'd rather die than be american
Did you get your mandatory shots?
@@LilyGazou shots were never mandatory in Canada.
I played this in class when we were told to discuss something we knew about Canada
Your video made me look into the history.
As an American, this is awesome
My Ancestor was Laura Secord . I wonder how you like her now with current Politicians!?
Come all you brave young soldier lads
With your strong and manly bearing
I'll tell you a tale of a woman bold and her deed of honest daring
Laura Secord was American-born in the state of Massachusets
But she made her home in Canada and proved so faithful to us
Chorus:
There's American guns and 500 men
So the warning must be given
And Laura Ingersoll Secord was the stalwart heart
Who braved the heat and the flies and the swamp
To warn Colonel Fitzgibbon
There's soldiers pounding at the door
And they come from across the border
American officers march inside
It's food and drink they've ordered
In comfort they have dined and drunk
Their own success they've toasted
But they pay no heed to the woman who hears their plan so idly boasted
Oh, James I've overheard it all
A surprise attack they're making
Fitzgibbon they intend to smash
His men for prisoners taking
And James a warning never you'll take with your wounded knee and shoulder
I myself must carry it past the sentries and the soldiers
It's an all-day tramp to the British camp
By way of Shipman's Corners
There're snakes and flies and sweat in her eyes
There is no respite for her
She's lost her shoes in the muck of the bog
Her feet are torn and blistered
But there's many a soldier lad to be spared if the message be delivered
So all you Yankee soldier lads who dare to cross our border
Thinking to save us from ourselves
Usurping British order
There's women and men Canadians all
Of every rank and station
To stand on guard and keep us free
From Yankee domination
You left out the several times "There's American guns and 500 men
So the warning must be given
And Laura Ingersoll Secord was the stalwart heart
Who braved the heat and the flies and the swamp
To warn Colonel Fitzgibbon" came up
@@Saucy-ws6jc was the warning given? Were there women and men from every rank and station, to stand on guard and free us from Yankee domination
This is my soul music.
I wish a song about my country's defeat wasn't so catchy
This is fantastic!
"Laura Secord was American born in the state of Massachusettes
But she made her home in Canada and proved so faithful to us"
So basically me (but male). I am an American but I want to move to Canada one day. I hate this country and Canada will save me. God bless Canada.
As a Canadian myself, I must say that currently we aren't in a very good situation, but the future looks bright for Canada!
@@Ziplat962 Oh yes, I see that Canada isn't doing too well right now. But I still have hope for it. I hope it's moistly fixed by the time I am able to hopefully sign up and get accepted for the Alberta opportunity stream as that seems like it's my only option as an 'unskilled' worker.
The band who sings this is called "Tanglefoot"
Oops - there's a live version of this where the audience DOES cheer at the song's climax.
I’d like to invite the people who don’t think that it’s not Canadians but the British that beat the Americans in the war of 1812 to listen to this song
thank you, whenever I try to explain the war of 1812 to my american friends they say it was the british and not us
@@ozymandias3329 I'd say it was both Canadians and British. All proud sons of the empire!
The British didn’t win. Nor was there any Canada in 1812 it was bunch of colonies.
@@TheIceman567 A bunch was Upper Canada and lower Canada, and yes, the British and by association the Canadians won
@@DominicBlair nope they didn’t they failed to achieve their goals an Indian buffer state, Maine (which the British held east port Maine until 1818) and Minnesota to control the upper Mississippi. And gave up on their native allies and stopped impressment. Losing these same native allies when they turned and sided with the Americans in the 2nd Treaty of Greenville of 1814 (this included the Shawnees). Come on man study will yah.
Sounds Irish to me, definitely can tell of Canada's Irish heritage. Love it!! I'm both Irish and Canadian and live near Canada in Aroostook county, ME.
Oh damn I just moved back to Canada this summer from Presque Isle. What part of Aroostook are you from?
@@mortamos362 caribou. Lol
Make Maine Canadian
@@reverseflashfacts6093 lol its already has been bud, we got Tim Hortons, Hockey teams, Maple syrup producers and lots of fucking hosers lol.
@@TheDarkSoul6660 you must adopt the flag
Nice
I’m very happy they fought for this country. I’m glad I’m not American.
I think the singers are a group called Tanglefoot.
It's pretty good.
"its unknown who sung this" bullshit. this is tanglefoots classic.
Nice 👏😀🌈
Wrong flag for Secords time.
So you just want them to put a union jack on there for a Canadian song?
@@ozymandias3329 yes, God save the Queen of Canada.
@@Tea_and_Cake no
@@ozymandias3329 yes
@@Tea_and_Cake no
God save the King
A flag from the 1900s lol but good song
The Histoadian this song is really old though
@@metalhd7277 The song was before this flag was around, the song is about the war of 1812 (1812-1815) and the flag is from 1930s-1960s
@@metalhd7277 Canada didn't have a flag during the war of 1812, we just used the Union Jack. We did later get a unofficial flag in the 1860s and various others up until the 1960s. Canada never actually had a official flag until the 1960s when the Maple leaf modern one came out. Google is a very bad source to find correct Canadian flags but you can find some. This flag is from the late Victorian era the first widely used Canadian flag images.app.goo.gl/R9viJ5KbGPLLyrgz9
The Histoadian ok thanks
thats because the dominion of Canada made it. not modern canada
I'm gonna eat the fuck out of some overpriced chocolate
They sound like Irish-Americans, well, they are.
They are from Ontario, Canada dumbass they are not American listen to the lyrics and you could tell they aren't American.
Harry Smith I was joking about Canada’s diversity
C a n a d i a n i s C a n a d i a n
@@twisted3516 bullshit
theirs's no such thing as an "Irish-American"... if someone has been imbued with American culture then that person is "American"... never a "hyphenated American"... as a "hyphenated American" is not an "American".
And that go's for any country... if someone is not imbued with the culture of that country... then that person can not call them self's the title of someone of that country... i.e. they can not use the title of American or British or Canadian or Australian or New Zealand or French or German or Nigerian or what ever the name of people of any country.
Its culture that go's in to make someone who they are... not a document saying... "citizen of"... and the name that Country...
its culture noting more nothing less... just culture.
Just before anyone gets it wrong and I end up with racist on my back... Race and Culture are NOT the same thing... both exist initially separate from one another... Culture is social behaviour and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, tradition's... basically Culture means "way of life"... and Race... does not.
I just wanted to make that very very clear before anyone accuses me of being something as vile as a Racist... like Woke people like to do.
(I mean Woke people are Racist by a different name... what's that saying... A Rose By Any Other Name Is Still A Rose.)
What a traitorous woman.
And how exactly was she traitorous
canadian nationalist music be like: bro america is so cool