Thread: Doomsday Song
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Old 12-14-2010, 06:29 PM   #16
Roy Strachan
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Originally Posted by jkoller@carolina.rr.com View Post
Back in 1969 I and a friend saw Gord at the first annual University of North Carolina at Charlotte Folk Festival (I think also the last.) We heard some great new stuff that evening including a song he sang I can not find anywhere by any artist. I believe it was called the "Doomsday Song" and it talked about walking acrossed Lake Erie.

I have talked to seven of my friends that were also there, and while we can not agree on a name, we all agree we heard it.

Can anyone shed some light?
Waiting for the doomsday to come??

I heard Gord sing a bit of this at a concert at the Queen Elizabeth theater in Vancouver, BC in the late sixties. I think he said the song contained something like 180 verses and that he had written it to sing as the ultimate protest song at American Universities. I don't remember too much about the song except that it was one of the funniest things I ever heard; the audience was literally rolling in the aisles. I have searched for this song occasionally ever since but sadly Gord never recorded it, at least that I could find. I guess it would have taken up one side of a vinyl album, but hey, Arlo Guthrie did it (Alice's Restaurant) and it made him famous.
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