Goodbye Benjamin

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Davie Simmons

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Goodbye Benjamin
Goodbye Benjamin
Goodbye Benjamin

I met an Old man with a Walking Stick
Hand Carved from a Diamond Willow
Said it was a Souvenir of Batouche
Celebrating Canadas first National Fight
Captured Louie Riel Metis Indians
Manitoba would be right

Without Charles Duchesne alias Charlebois
Iron Body and the Man without Blood
Wandering Spirit Little Bear and Bad Arrow
And there was Dressy then Miserable Man
Who followed Louie Riel
Believed in Louie Riel

But they taught the people 
To sing this song
Goodbye Benjamin
Goodbye Benjamin Bye Bye
Goodbye Benjamin
Now cheat the Hangman if you can

They came from the forests of New Brunswick
The shores of Nova Scotia
From Prince Edward Island
Quebec too
On to Ontario to show them the way
Across the Great Lakes
And then I heard him say

He was a seventh Fusilier alias Chemist
Had an Iron Body he had Blue Blood
Adventurous Spirit shot straight as an arrow
What I saw was a Dressy but Miserable Man
Who feared Louie Riel and for Canada as well

So they had taught the people to sing this song
Goodbye Benjamin
Goodbye Benjamin
Goodbye Benjamin
Cheat the Hangman if you can

Now this Benjamin Simmons made the headlines of the day 
Papers across Canada New York too
Why did they hand him I asked but he didn't say
But when these nine went to the gallows
He said it was Canada's Black Friday

They hanged 8 in Battleford
Benjamin in London
Louie was hanged on the sixteenth
Must not spill more Blood
Ben was the Lamb
The sacrifice to the alter
Out West it was messy
They were miserable men
Who condemned Louie Riel
And Benjamin as well

So let me here all you Canadians sing
Goodbye Benjamin Yah
Goodbye Benjamin
Come on everybody
Goodbye Benjamin 
Cheat the Hangman if you can

I met an Old man with a Walking Stick
Hand Carved from a Diamond Willow
Said it was a Souvenir of Batouche 
Celebrating Canadas first National Fight
Captured Louie Riel Metis Indians
Manitoba would be made right

 Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer