What exactly is a Québecois? Here's one version.
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The Québec Nation By Corrigan Fest: http://www.myspace.com/corriganfest
Lyrics start at 0:40 (Hold on to your hat!)
Lyrics start at 0:40
I am the son of sailors that crossed the sea
I am the son of soldiers who detested war
I am the son of convicts, escaped criminals
I am the son of "Les filles du Roi" too poor to be married
Son of coureur des bois and swindlers
Child of seven nations and sons of adventurers
Metis and mixed blood though it was hidden from me
It was shameful, it will be my pride
Everybody sing along now
I am son of Irishmen driven away by famine
I am son of Scots come to waste away in factories
From the age of 8, 16 hours on machines
God knows I never gave in
I remaind upright, stood up to my bosses
Even when the conscription law passed
I am son of peasants and of workers
I don't take up arms to fight other starving peoples
Sing along
It wasn't my war, I deserted
I fled in the woods and hid
Refusing to be cannon fodder
Refusing to die far away for the nation
A nation that was never really mine
A forced alliance of misery and pain
It represents the genocide of First Nations
The Nation of slavery and of deportations
Everybody now!
If I do love my country, the land I was born in
I do not want any Gods, I do not want any masters
All together...
http://www.resistancequebecoise.org/