The Black Fly Song

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title=The Black Fly Song
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writer=Wade Hemsworth
composer=Wade Hemsworth
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published=1949
written=1949
language=English
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original_artist=Wade Hemsworth

"The Black Fly Song" is a song by Wade Hemsworth, written in 1949. A song about working in the wilds of Northern Ontario, it is an enduring classic of Canadian folk music, covered by a variety of other artists and made into an animated short film by the National Film Board in 1991. [http://www.nfb.ca/trouverunfilm/fichefilm.php?id=25968&v=h&lg=en&exp=${blackfly}]

ample lyric

"(Note: for artistic effect, the i in Ontario is pronounced as a long i ("eye") sound rather than the "ee" sound normally used in pronouncing the name.)"

Chorus

And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' my bones
In North Ontar-i-o-i-o, In North Ontar-i-o

First Verse

Was early in the spring when I decided to go
To work up in the woods in North Ontario
The unemployment office said they'd send me through
The Little Abitibi with the survey crew

External links

* [http://www.box.net/index.php?rm=box_v2_download_shared_file&file_id=f_25052998 "Download The Black Fly Song"]
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000328 "Canadian Encyclopedia article"]
* [http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/film.php?sort=title&id=25968 See the short at the official NFB site]