A popular song from 1918.
Words and music by Will J. White.
Arranged by Jules Brazil.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Ev’ry night as I lay dreaming
Dreaming of the days gone by
Stars shine bright, the moon a-gleaming
Gleaming o’er the western sky
A vision rare, a garden fair
A loving mother with silv’ry hair
I can see her in the arm chair
And she’s waiting for me there
Chorus
Take me back, take me back
Take me back to dear old Canada
Where the wild Canadian rose
And the four leaf clover grows
Take me back, take me back
Where the crimson creeper climbs
And the morning glories twine ’round the vine
Take me back to Canada
- Now a Scotchman loves the thistle
England loves the charming rose
Whilst the Irish love their Shamrock
And the soil on which it grows
And France the land of Fleur-de-Lis
Her flow’r of love and fidelity
But the maple leaf of Canada
Is the emblem dear to me