Matthew de Zoete and the Dundana Choir - Remembrance Day

Performed by the choir at Dundana Elementary School and Matthew de Zoete with humble gratitude to all our veterans. Photo by Claude P Dettloff, 1940.
Written and recorded by Matthew de Zoete. Mixed by Dan Rodrigues.
Standing beneath the cenotaph at Halifax
I heard the bugles on Remembrance Day
For the girls who went the distance from Victoria
And the boys who went marching from Saint John
Oh Canada, do we know the price they paid?
Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day
If I shake the hand of every ancient soldier
If I wear a poppy and I bow my head
For the girls who were nurses from Regina
And the boys who bled their lives out for King George
Oh Canada, am I worth the price they paid?
Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day
I stood below the holy ground at Vimy
Trying to walk in someone else's shoes
Oh would I go the distance on that Monday
To bleed my sweet life out in the mud
So far from home?
Oh Canada, do we know the price they paid?
Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day
Oh do I know the price you paid?
Remembrance Day
Oh do I know the price you paid?
Remembrance Day