Quote Originally Posted by Beirut
An Official Frontroom Balloon for Gregoshi for having the intellect, culture, and class to quote Gordon Lightfoot.
Thank you Canada for Gordon Lightfoot!

A few more from Mr. Lightfoot that always have me wishing I was northward bound:

Just for now I'd like to rest in the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there.
from Hiway Songs

There's a kind of a restless feeling and it pulls me from within
It sends my senses reeling and my wheels begin to spin
In the quietude of winter you can hear the wild geese cry
I will always love that sound until the day I die.
...
The lake is blue, the sky is gray, the leaves have turned to gold
The wild goose will be on her way, the weather's much too cold
When the muskie and the old trout too have all gone down to rest
We will be returning to the things that we love best.
from Restless

There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real
from Canadian Railroad Trilogy