Opening Song, October 29, 2016

City of Kenora (Sung to the tune of Arlo Guthrie’s City of New Orleans)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ

Leaving from the City of Kenora

Manitoba Central, Saturday morning trail

Just one car and just 3 restless riders

Hope that this day, the Bombers just won’t fail

 

All along the westbound odyssey, the car flies by East Braintree

And rolls along past houses farms and fields

Passing lakes that have no name, a village full of older men

And gas stations serving empty automobiles

 

Good morning Winnipeg, how are you?

Say don’t you know us, we’re your football fans

On our way to cheer our Winnipeg Blue Bombers

We’ll be gone 500 miles when this trip is done

 

Talking football, with the old guy in the back seat

Who’ll score a point, and what will be the score

Pass the Tupperware that holds the munchies

Feel the wheels, rumblin’ ‘neath the floor

 

And fans who go a few times, and those who go a lot

Think that this year their team is the real deal

And Saturday the faith they’ll keep, hoping that Henry they’ll beat

And optimism and hope is all they feel

 

Good morning Winnipeg, how are you?

Say don’t you know us, we’re your football fans

On our way to cheer our Winnipeg Blue Bombers

We’ll be gone 500 miles when this trip is done

 

Next day, to the City of Kenora

Have to stop in Prawda for a pee

Halfway home, we’ll be there by lunchtime

Through the Manitoba morning, rolling back to the lake

 

Now all those years of losing seem to fade into a bad dream

Bombers playoff bound, now that’s breaking news

The driver sings this song again, the passengers ask, “please refrain”

This car’s got the disappearing Blue Bomber blues

 

Good night Winnipeg, how are you

So now you know us, we’re your football fans

Bomber fans from the City of Kenora

We’ll be gone 500 miles when this trip is done