Hi 2Much2Lose,
Unfortunately, I do not know the author, but I think you might enjoy this:
The Wreck of Canadian Hockey
(with apologies to Gordon Lightfoot)
The gridiron’s fine, basketball’s a good time,
And baseball’s okay in the summer,
But hockey’s the game, all the rest are quite lame
And without it then life’s quite the bummer.
In view of this fact, we can only react
By admiring our northerly neighbors.
Canada, strong and free, what a haven is she
For hockey and all its great players.
Fine tales have been told of your skaters so bold,
Trained on bonds, backyard rinks, frozen rivers.
Heroes true from the north, who would all prove their worth,
And the names give us Yankees the shivers!
There’s Gretzky and Howe, Bobby Orr, Patrick Roy,
Lemieux and Lafleur and Joe Sakic,
Beliveau, Yzerman, Kariya and Dryden,
Why to list them all just makes us frantic!
With this history so grand, we just can’t understand
A twist of fate quite this unlucky.
But Chretien now has said that the bailout is dead,
It’s the wreck of Canadian hockey!
At the start of the week things were looking quite bleak
When the news was announced of the bailout.
"The Sens now are saved!" all the hockey fans raved,
But we never suspected the fallout
We thought hockey was loved by all people above
The U.S./Canadian border,
But the taxpayers there thought the plan wasn’t fair
And they made their complaints in short order.
"If you think this deal sucks, then send Chretien your pucks!"
said the angry Taxpayers Association.
When too many pucks flew, then the government knew
The negative vibes of the nation.
Many shots and no saves sent the plan to its grave.
O’er the bailout’s dead body we’re grieving.
What a day of dismay! Now the hockey fans say
The Canadian teams may be leaving.
O North white and true, how we sorrow for you,
Though our dollar is strong, we feel yucky
For the part it has played in this mess that’s been made,
The wreck of Canadian hockey!
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