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TOMHINKLE57
THIS HISTORICAL NARATIVE WAS NEVER A PART OF SCHOOL HISTORY LESSONS HERE IN THE U. S.
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jonniewilks
I'd say this song ought to be better known, but I quite like that it's our little secret.
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prominence_la
Beautiful! Even though I've never heard this song before, I get a strong sense of nostalgia from this...it's very nourishing, actually.
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suzukitakao
one of the great songs of the Band. every time I listen to this song, I cannot stop hoping this song will never end.
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oldesthippie
I saw these guys at pine knob with CSN in the 70s. Too many great memories for an old hippie.
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sceadugenga
Brilliant track. I think either this or The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down are my favourite Band tracks.
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rhythmripple
This song rocks....this Band rocks. there will never be another band with this roots, canamericana sound. I could hear this everyday, right between Blue Sky (Allman Bros.) and Lovin' in my Babies eyes (Taj Mahal)
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cloth_ears
I agree this is an amazing song...don't really care if it not historically accurate or not.
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Echoes1958
As far as the historical mistakes are concerned I think we can easily figure that an Acadian farmer had a vague idea of a border between his land and the British colonies even if this border was not clearly defined. This was clearly explained in the article. On the other hand, I don't see why it is suggested in the song that the deportation began after the 7 Year War. The treaty could very well be that of Utrecht in 1713. And to me - I'm not a native speaker of English, understand -, the preposition 'over' could very well mean it began before Montcalm's defeat in 1759 and continued afterwards, which is historically correct, isn't it? The thing is that it contradicts Robertson's quote that is mentioned in the article.
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Echoes1958
I've read the article, which is very well down. But I don't agree with the author when he says it's a message song because it could very well work with Kosovars trying to seek asylum in Britain or anything. To me it's just a "romanticised" story of a people and was meant to be some sort of an anthem. In Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, the Okies were also dispossessed when arriving in California and were not really hosted with open arms. Should we suggest that Steinbeck's novel is a message novel?
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Sepulchre
Robertson took poetic licence with history. Deportations began not when "the war was over", in 1763 after the Treaty of Paris, but in 1755 after the English victory in the Battle of Fort Beauséjour (in present-day New Brunswick). "What went down on the Plains of Abraham" was the Battle of Quebec in 1759--the decisive battle of the war, but still years after the deportations. Wikipedia
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