Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot cover

Performed by Joe Paulik on the Temperance River in the Superior National Forest. The brilliance of this song by Gordon Lightfoot is that it takes no opinion about that which it describes: the transformation of this continent from that of pristine wilderness to that greatly altered and affected for the desires of man. The narrative presents a haunting and exquisitely beautiful virgin and wild America at the beginning and the end of the song. In between, it nonjudgmentally presents the progression of activities and decisions of man as also being an awesome occurrence. We the audience are left with one of the greatest gifts a writer can give: the clarification of choice.