Tom Thomson Lyrics

I'd let the northern river

Devour me

Let it drown me

I'd let the jack pine

Fall and crush me

Let it hush me

You'd let the Boor War

Just devour you

If it wanted to

Four rejections

One for your heart

Three for your pride

But none for mind

Cruelty and kindness

Do you know what and why they have taken?

You let the jack pine

Fall and crush you

Oh, how it loves you

The Madawaska

See the logs crash through

The water roars at you

But the true woodsman

Only needs

What he is

And the true woodsman

Starts and ends

Where he is

And if you had stayed

Would the seven have been eight?

And if you had stayed

Would you be taken anyways?

And if you had stayed

Would I have loved you just the same?

But you let Algonquin

Just devour you

It surrounded you

You let Algonquin

Just devour you

How it loved you

You let Canoe Lake

Just devour you

Til it Drowned

You