Annotation

Dates to circa 1854.

The first two stanzas are:

Come all ye jolly fellows,
How would you like to go
And spend the winter in the woods
Of Canaday-I-O?

We're go-ing up to Canaday
Is what we young men say,
And going up to Canada
Depends upon the pay.

Annotation last modified on 2011-12-11 10:26 UTC.

Relationships

additional lyricist:Ephraim Braley (Canadian logger in the mid 1850's)
writer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
Wikipedia:en: Canada-I-O [info]
later versions:Buffalo Skinners
Canadee-i-o
version of:Canada-i-o