Cadd9
And if I did not dream, who would you be?
Cadd9
And if you did not dream, who would I be?


 G                  D
Yes, there is gold in this mountain
 G                 D
This they cannot mine
  C               Am
Tell me who they need it for
  C
I'll tell you now, they need me more


   Em
O Canada girls
        D       Am         Em
I have seen you in your sweaters
         D         Am      Em
In the late-night sun at Winnipeg
         D         Am           Em
Growing up with friends, and so unhurried
            D          D
With your secrets, I believe
                      D
Kept in the longer sleeve
 Em  D   Em   D
Oh, girls


    G               D
Highways seen from hotel windows
  G               D
Pumping highway blood
  C            Am
If I say they run from fear
       C                      C
Are things much different standing here?


 Em
O Canada girls
        D       Am           Em
When I saw the geese flying north
       D           Am           Em
I remembered the friends of my vision
        D      Am        Em
And a sense I had of other wings
       D              D
Like faith, light threaded through a psalm
         D              D
Like our boys fleeing Vietnam
  Em   D   Em   D
Oh, girls


    G         D
If I drove up 87
    G         D
Up past Montreal
   C              Am
Following the bluest veins
   C                Am
Following through icy rains
          Am            D
Would I emerge in the present
      Am                D
And know just where to begin?
        Am                 D                      Em
I'm so sick of forgetting myself to remember who I am
       C                       D               Em
And you say, yeah, but why so cold, and so Canadian?
        C                 D
Well, I guess it's gotta feel like some exodus
       C                   D
And if I succeed, well, there will be more of us
        C                        D
And if I don't, well, I don't really know


  Em             D        Am     Em
Girls, who have found our unsung nation
          D            Am      Em
Where we left so much land to itself
         D    Am             Em
That everyone had her own mountain


              D                          D
Well, if you think of this girl and the dreams that made her
  Cadd9
Write your secrets on hornet-nest paper
             D               G        D
And blow it high across the border


  Cadd9
'Cause if you did not dream, who would I be?
  Cadd9
And if I did not dream, who would you be?