Janey Canuk’s Mission

• Lyrics and Music by Teresa Healy
  (Ottawa, January 15, 2004)
  

  I see women fleeing lives of woe
  Female beasts of burden
  Who slaved away with no respite
  In every backward nation

  To Canada they come in hordes
  These girls they are endangered
  They put themselves in harm’s way
  To accept the opium of a stranger

  What could that be?
  I shiver at the sound of a great big wind,
  It’s almost like the sound of the tide
  Turning on the prairie.

  While men with commerce, war and trade,
  Do rule this wild Dominion
  Morality bids me make the rules
  To prevent degeneration

  It’s for us to enlighten, not condemn
  To educate their children
  This century will belong to Canada
  And Canada, to civilised persons

  What could that be?
  I shiver at the sound of a great big wind,
  It’s almost like the sound of the tide
  Turning on the prairie.