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Artist - Sean McGaughey | Songs (19)

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Genre: Singer-Songwriter
Credits: Sean McGaughey, 1995, 1996

Song: Borrowed Land
Album: For the Sake of The Song

Song Information:

On September 4th, 1995, a group of Natives started a protest in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario to draw attention to the decades-old land claims. These people were protesting trying to draw public attention to the fact that their reserve had been expropriated to build a military base during WWII with the understanding it would be returned after the War. Instead part of it was turned into a Provincial Park and the rest was used as a summer training camp for army cadets.

Although the protesters purpose was peaceful, a riot squad was sent in and in the ensuing confusion, an unarmed protester was shot and killed.

I wrote this song as a way to make sense of an appalling news story.

The controversy in Ontario over this event continues to this day as there is currently a government inquiry investigating these events.

More information about these events can be found on Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_George

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Canada License.

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Lyrics:
Borrowed Land

Sean McGaughey, 1995, 1996
key of Am (Am, Em, Dm)
I:
Am
The Storms of change are raging
Em
over Ipperwash tonight.
Am
.A band of men are gathered.
Em
They say they're willing to fight.
Dm
For the home their fathers lent us
G
so we could fight. war.
Em
FIfty years the guns were silent
Am
We don't need their homes no more.
Chorus:
C G
And 1 wonder when will we ever learn
C G
How many Bridges (crosses) have to burn
Dm G
How long before the masters all return
G Am
For their Borrowed Land.

II:
Am
Nine months and theyre still waging
Em
the campaign at Ipperwash.
Am
This band of self-named warriors
Em
say they fight a sacred cause
Dm
Already one has died here
G
without one acre saved
Em
How long before all people share
Am
The land of the free and the braves?

(Chorus)

III (Bridge)
Am (C) Dm F
This land is your land,
F C
this land is my land,
C G7 C
From Bonavista to Vancouver Island
C F
From the Arctic Circle
F C-Am
to the Great Lakes waters
Em
This land was made for them and we.

(Chorus)

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