O Canada (Canadian Penny Charm)

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Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1995 single "I Kissed a Girl", and "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Chapin, and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. An appreciable percentage of her work is also dedicated to detailed accounts of both her own fictional female creations and such troubled but celebrated wo… more »

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O Canada, you took me in
Just beneath your native skin
To the land we both belonged to years ago
O pal of mine, how young it was
Mountie you and Yankee cuz
Dog days, adolescent fuzz
Distortion, gain, delay
 
O Canada, you took me in 
You took me in
You took me in 
O Canada 
 
A summer long, a lakefront green
The profile of departed queen
Sat sweating by mosquito screens
In doors upon the wild
You gave your heart, I deigned a glance
It seemed so plain, but you got fancy
Saw through it
You were still a child
 
O Canada, you took me in 
You took me in 
You took me in 
O Canada
 
In my pocket, getting warm
Like August in November
In my pocket, getting warm
A value-vacant ember
O Canada
 
O Canada, your penny buys
Not much more than a pair of eyes
Red and cold like dragonflies 
That troll the lake at dawn
That's how much our stories earn
Worthless as a mountain fern
Summer glows for Fall to burn
For Fall to burn 
 
O Canada, you took me in 
You took me in 
You took me in 
O Canada, you took me in
You took me in
You took me in
O Canada

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