Tuesday, June 14, 2011

More fun up North

The province of Quebec, recognized --to no apparent effect-- as "a nation within Canada", now has a proposal for a new national anthem, "O Kebek". As we say in the shrink biz, it's diagnostic.

The author is not the first in his family to try his hand. The words to O Canada were written "by an ancestor of my mother's second husband..."

This is the short version, sung by the author. And it's not from The Onion/L'onion. It's just a lot of bilge.





 (English translation)

O Kebek

Kebek is who we are, people from here, people with heart

A unique country in North America

Great people united under the fleur-de-lis

A nation flourishing and aspiring to goodwill

Under the rainbow we sing of liberty

All the days we remember our history

Our pride our victory is to speak French

And to live together in peace

We keep our memories of France

From where we left under a wind of hope

Our dear ancestors that gave birth to

the breath of a country where abundance reigns

We formed alliances with the aboriginal peoples

Having spoken with the spirit of the Earth

That gave us life with the fruits of nature and

Protected us from the cold

Our beautiful youth are our richness

The freshness of our dreams will change the world

With the wisdom of the ages we respond

We are confident and united

Between our generations we built bridges

The same water flows in all our rivers

Bringing together the new and the old

Creating the beautiful country which is our

O Kebek

Land that we love

Catchy, eh? I mean, oui?

God, what crap.


Chapeau-Tip to FB ami, Eliot Rifler, a Canuck of the non-Kebek variety.
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2 comments:

Leah said...

Wait, shouldn't it be in French?

Anonymous said...

Good Lord, that's dreck. It makes O Canada seem downright macho.

On the topic of O Canada, I find it ironic that a country with the lyrics "my home and native land" has an even more porous border and less homogeneous culture than us. Driving around the cities, you could be forgiven to think you were in a foreign country every other block.

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