This morning, all full of fear and trembling

Constituents were assembling

With quotes from Mr. Angus Ried in hand

Joe Clark struck up the band for a televised love-in link-up

Wherein average folks could think up ways to save our troubled land.

Then later, three trucks with big antennas

Folks dressed like Frank McKenna's

And cub reporters showed up on my lawn

Flashbulbs shook the dawn and a teleprompter told me

To speak the words out boldly for a CanSave telethone.

I think I love you, can they hear that out in Moosejaw

Here's a simple guy from Oshawa

With a heaping homespun hunk of national pride

I think I love you, get some makeup on the neighbours...

It's a humble, folksy plea...pick it up on camera three...

They gave me coffee and made me sit with others

Whom, if they'd had their druthers would rather be home watching NFL

But I guess it's just as well that we find a common zeitgeist

Before Preston pulls a seat-heist in a parliament from hell.

The CanSave satellite send word from downtown Gander

Where folks refused to pander to ultimatums sent by Neighbour Kim

We were about to pack it in when our Brian started prayin'

Let's all act like Sir John A. - in other words, let's hit the gin.

Then came Alberta with a message from the Saddledome

Said Canada's their true home

There's just some slight instructions for us all

They'd like to build a massive wall, top it with a bubble, pronto

So they could call Toronto the all-new East Edmonton Mall.

We'll sing we love you, you're a jumbo hero sandwich

Top it off with Peter Mansbridge

Two huskies and a bucket of poutine

Canada we love you so much it doesn't matter

You're a frigid, spineless pawn for Wall Street and the Pentagon...

But, geez, we love you!