Tune: Woody Guthrie, “This land is your land”
Chorus & tune to verses: The Brothers-In-Law
Verses here: David W. Watts, written 1965-77
First verse sung as chorus after later verses
Which flag is your flag?
Which flag is my flag?
In the House of Commons
Oh, how they’re bedragg’d!
And as they’re ravin’
The flags are wavin’
Which flag was meant for you and me?
The Royal Canadian Legion said
That it would never back
Any emblem that did not
Contain the Union Jack—
But now the bill is passed
They have promised to defend
A flag designed with the Legion in mind:
Got a bar at either end …
The socialist New Democrats said
That it was such a shame
To argue about a flag when we’d
A country but in name—
Reflecting our economy
The design they would propose:
An American bald eagle
With a beaver in its claws …
Now Newfoundland wants a codfish in
Québec a fleur-de-lis
And you have to throw in Captain Cook
To pacify BC—
There’s little Peter Lougheed
Felt he could improve upon
But the Imperial oil monogram
Would please his brother Don …