A year before out and out rebellion broke out in Upper Canada, a Torontonian named Stephen Randal lashed out at the Family Compact with this taunting song. It was published both as a broadside and in W.L. Mackenzie's newspaper "The Constitution". The pass...
An easy round from "The Canadian Musical Fountain and Prohibition Singer" - C.W. Coates, Toronto, 1874. This one is easy to learn/teach and fun to sing. What's a "flip"? (see lyrics) In case you're interested in trying one before you sign the pledge -F...
"The Canadian Musical Fountain and Prohibition Singer" was a songbook created for the temperance movement and published in Toronto in 1874. I first found a copy at the Toronto Public Library. These excerpts came from the Internet Archive, where you can fi...
A song from the pages of "The Voice of The Fugitive", an abolitionist newspaper published in Sandwich Ontario (near Windsor) by Henry Bibb. No author is credited, but it is a topical rewrite of a hymn (of the same name) composed by Welsh hymn writer Will...
There are many printed examples of this song in the pages of abolitionist newspapers and broadsides of the 1850s. It's sometimes called "Song of The Free" - sometimes, "Going Up To Canada". It was intended to be sung to the tune "Oh Susannah" by Stephen ...
