Thank You, Merci Canada
Vu Han Giang & Thuy Lan
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Oh Canada! Oh Canada! Forty years ago I was lost and stateless,
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Then Canada adopted me, let me stay and gave me a new homeland
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Thank you Canada! Merci Canada! For your generosity, for caring for me and loving me,
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Thank you Canada! Merci Canada! I ‘ll be forever grateful for such compassion.
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Oh precious land, my new country, I vow to defend you until I die!
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Oh terre precieuse, mon nouveau pays, je te defendrai toute ma vie!
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In a journey to freedom across the world I have found Canada
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A land of opportunities, diversity, a peaceful home, my new country
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You have given me a refuge, freedom of thought, social justice
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A land of democracy, rights and equality, with doors open to me from sea to sea
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Oh Canada! Oh Canada! I have lost a country; I have lost a home,
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But in Canada, land of ice and snowy mountains, I found blossoms in a rainbow of colour
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Walked on beds of golden maple leaves, swam in blue lakes shimmering under the sun
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Thank you Canada! Merci Canada! I’m in love with your majestic nature and beauty!
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Oh precious land, my new country, I vow to defend you until I die!
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Oh terre precieuse, mon nouveau pays, je te defendrai toute ma vie!
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In a journey to freedom across the world I have found Canada
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A land of opportunities, diversity, a peaceful home, my new country
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You have given me a refuge, freedom of thought, social justice
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A land of democracy, rights and equality, with doors open to me from sea to sea
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Oh promise land, my new homeland, I vow to defend your values!
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Oh precious land, my new country, I vow to defend you until I die!
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Oh terre de promesse, ma nouvelle patrie, je defendrai tes valeurs!
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Oh terre precieuse, mon nouveau pays, je te defendrai toute ma vie!
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Oh precious land, my new country, I vow to defend you until I die!
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Je te defendrai toute ma vie!