If I did not dream who would you be
   And if you did not dream who would I be
   Yes there is gold in this mountain
   This they cannot mine
   Tell me who they need it for
   I'll tell you now, they need me more
  
   O Canada girls
   I have seen you in your sweaters
   In the late night sun at Winnipeg
   Growing up with friends and so unhurried
   With your secrets I believe
   Kept in the longer sleeve
   Oh girls
  
   Highways seen from hotel windows
   Pumping highway blood
   If I say they run from fear
   Are things much different standing here
  
   O Canada girls
   When I saw the geese flying north
   I remembered the friends of my vision
   And a sense I had of other wings
   Like faith, light threaded through a psalm
   Like our boys fleeing Vietnam
   Oh girls
  
   If I drove up eighty-seven
   Up past Montreal
   Following the bluest veins
   Following through icy rains
   Would I emerge in the present
   And know just where to begin
   I'm so sick of forgetting myself to remember who I am
   And you say yeah, but why so cold, and so Canadian
   I guess it's got to feel like some exodus
   And if I succeed, well there will be more of us
   And if I don't well I don't really know
  
   Girls
   Who have found our unsung nation
   Where we left so much land to itself
   That everyone had her own mountain
  
   Well if you think of this girl and the dreams that made her
   Write your secrets on hornet nest paper
   And blow it high across the border
  
   Cause if you did not dream, who would I be
   And if I did not dream who would you be