What is it with The Ode to Newfoundland? from our former Premier on down, just a few lyrics are all it takes to have us choked up - it's worse than Sonny's Dream, for Pete's sake. And, believe me, I hold no pretence of superiority here - one whiff of those pine clad hills, and I'm gone. And it doesn't matter how long you've lived away from home - this is always home - those notes still resonate. Even, say, in Toronto, at the Masonic Music Hall, Yonge Street, Saturday Night. Arctic cold outside, hundreds of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians and one Great Big Sea inside. It was The Smiling Land (those words again!) Foundation's Rockin' Big Give, which the NQ was happy to play a small role in. So far from those sunrays, just around the corner from Bloor, but, we love thee Newfoundland.
(Image: www.heritage.nf.ca.)
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