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A Toast to Vancouver

from Set to the Music by Crosscurrents Music

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Emily Pauline Johnson was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her Mohawk name Tehakionwake translates as "double life," and this daughter of a Mohawk chief and an English immigrant took the stage for her first act in buckskins and the second act in a silk ballgown. After retiring from the stage in August 1909, Johnson moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she continued writing. When she died of breast cancer in 1913, her funeral was the largest ever seen in Vancouver. Her ashes were interred at Siwash Rock, and there is a monument to her in Vancouver's Stanley Park. This ode to Tehakionwake's adopted home is set to an original tune.

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There's wine in the cup, Vancouver,
And there's warmth in my heart for you
While I drink to your health, 
Your youth and your wealth
And the things that you yet will do.

In a vintage rare and olden
With a flavour fine and keen
Fill the glass to the edge, 
While I stand up to pledge
My faith to my Western queen.

CHORUS: So here's a Ho, Vancouver! 
In wine of the bonniest hue
With a hand on my hip and a cup at my lip 
And a love in my life for you.
For you are a jolly good fellow, 
With a great big heart I know
So I drink this toast to the Queen of the coast 
Vancouver, here's a Ho!

And here's to the days that are coming
And here's to the days that are gone
And here's to your gold and your spirit bold
And your luck that has held its own. CHORUS

And here's to your hands so sturdy
And here's to your hearts so true
And here's to the speed of the day decreed
That brings me again to you. CHORUS

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from Set to the Music, released July 24, 2021
Emily Pauline Johnson arr. Lynn Noel

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Crosscurrents Music Boston, Massachusetts

Lynn Noel brings traditional song and heritage arts online to create community. Lynn has a voice of striking clarity and power, equally at home in rhythmic chanteys and flowing ballads.

Lynn is a respected song session leader on both sides of the Atlantic and the producer and host of the Mermaid's Tavern online folk club. She is currently Program Chair of the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA). ... more

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