Paul Henry Dallaire

Jesus was a Social Democrat he wore sandals 'stead 'O shoes
a Nomad of the Desert with another bunch of Jews
I believe he had a girlfriend Mary Magdalene a shrew
He preached the words of wisdom to give us fortitude
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When I awoke this mornin
Dragged my body out of bed
I had a ex wife fever
Scramblin thru my head
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Chorus:
Now there's a town where I was born
In Northeastern Ontario
A place we love to celebrate
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A cowboy's dream is to go to Nashville Tennessee where all the cowboys seem to go, however, fate has it that this Lenny ends up on a park bench instead of Nashville.
I knew this guy personally and his real name is Len Poulin. I met Len in Ottawa Ontario Canada where we busked the streets together and drank a lot of beer at the Lafayette Hotel there. He is dead now but appeared on a couple small time films such as 'Rent' and maybe 'Cowboyz'produced by Peter Evanchuck (Film maker) of Ottawa, Canada.
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Town with no train

The old home town don't look the same
Since they took out the old train
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(Timmins Your My Town)

I got myself a love a love of my own
My dancin shoes are all worn down
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Regarde le marche sur le trottoire avec ses jeans
Avec ses problemes qui porte dans un pack-sac
Un jour y etait une grande vedette aved d l'argent pit tout
Qie depenser comme c'ta d'leau
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It was nineteen fifty six when he came on to the scene
With his Big River woman who washed him down the stream
He sang about the good stuff the hobos and the trains
He shone the light on heroes remember Ira Hayes
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I walked into a bar one night called 'Sidewinders' in Ottawa Ontario Canada They were having an electric bull riding contest and a woman won a trophy. I asked the waitress for a pen and the song was born. It got a lot of attention from www.topix.com
The Raceway Tavern is where I was performing in the week-ends.
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Story about a horse really. There was song contest in Galgary Alberta Canada and I wrote a song about it. I read in the paper about a race horse named Calagary Lady and I decided great title for a song ha ha. Ralph klein then the provincial leader sent me a certificate but I did not win the contest. As if someone from Ottawa would win.. ha ha.

Calgary Lady
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I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the womens hockey game played that day. Everything to give the Canadians a penalty so they could steal the game. I understand they even had an American referee which I believe is illegal just like the Iraq war.
They even stomped on the Canadian flag. Yep the same people that elected George Bush He he. No shame at all.
By the way the Bluenose was a Canadian racing schooner(Large fishing boat?) and when the Americans were beaten they left the trophy on the porch outside the door of skipper's Angus Walters house not to face him in person. Ho ho.
Here in this story a couple of guys buried a loonie at center ice for good luck while they were icing it with the Zamboni before the game.
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Yes it's me there on the jukebox singin songs that I wrote
While I'm sittin here in Vegas getting drunk
And if your asking what I'm doin in this crazy gambling town
Let's say I've laid my money down
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Fort Coulonge is about fifty miles west of Ottawa Ontario the Capital City of Canada and I guess you could say Mac Beattie and his band The Ottawa Valley Melodiers was a country music legend here in the Ottawa valley area and I still is.

Have you ever been where the Coulonge River flows
Timbers a fallin and the whistlin wind blows
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John Horden was the first missionary to open a church in Moose Factory just across the bay from Moosonee in the middle 1700's and in the spring to break the ice, they would fire a big black canon. I guess the echoing concusion of the shot helped break the ice in the bay.

Goin back to Moosonee /on the Banks Of Old James Bay
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I was conversing with a gentleman after the icestorm of 98 when he told me he was on business in Texas when he heard about it on the radio and then commented that he missed the whole thing and wished he could have been here to witness the beauty of it.. I thought it deserved recognition. Paul.
I went through that ice storm and took a couple of pictures. Eventually I'll put them on my web page.

This song 'El Nino' has been adopted by Encyclopedia Of Music In Canada (Disaster Songs) Ice Strom 98
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I see her smillin face on the streets and everywhere
If the phone should ring I'll get it just hopin she'll be there
This motel that I'm a crashin ain't no Holiday Inn
It's a hell of a place and a mess that I'm in
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This lady was born at Nighthawk center a little east of Timmins On Canada. I remember my father telling me that she could skin a beaver faster than you could smoke a cigarette.
She was a leader in the sufra jet movement for womans equality rights and she didn't even know it. She was a big name around here but somehow or rather the hometown seemed to have forgotten she ever existed, they even tore her shack down.
It's a shame shame double shame that I can't even find a trace of her in the local graveyard. She married a frenchman by the name of Bill Leclair from Kamiskotia so her full married name was Princess Maggie Buffalo Leclair.
Her father was a full blooded Chipewa Indian.
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Last night when I scrambled home neath the moonlight
down the hall thru the walls a new born baby cried
The sirens outside make me wish to be sober
for I feel a new song buildin deep in my heart
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There's a call ringing loud around the country
and it echoes through our hills and foreign lands
Directed to the Unions Lech Walesa
should free the Polish people from his hands
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Lord I'm blind in this world of darkness
need your soft and gentle hand to lead me on
On my knees I beg for tender kindness
be my compass on the sea and take me home
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