Gino Odjick
from Canadiana Grotesquica by Geoff Berner
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Video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5nNA7_nROA
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GINO ODJICK
Back in the time before Mike Keenan ruined watching the Canucks for me,
When he traded away Trevor Linden,
After letting Messier have the captaincy,
I used to like to watch Gino Odjick, he played the enforcer role.
Didn't have as much talent as some,
but he sure played with an awful lot of soul.
Now you can go ahead and be a jerk, and you can call him a goon.
But he fought like a kid in the schoolyard
Who was trying to make the bullies leave his little brother alone.
There was a reason that the people always shouted his name:
They recognized the emotions playing across his face.
They recognized the feelings ‘cause they knew they'd often felt the same,
It It's a determined look that says,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game.
Us Canadians like to believe that we're so polite and nice,
But we're more like the Romans than we know,
And we like to see a little blood on the ice.
But the armchair shouters and the TV clowns, they don't pay the butcher's bill.
It falls to people like Gino
To go out and bleed for the national spectacle.
But he never let himself become another casualty,
He took your worst impulses
And he turned them around, to lead a life of leadership and dignity.
There was a reason that the people always shouted his name:
They recognized the emotions playing across his face.
They recognized the feelings cause they knew they'd often felt the same,
It's a determined look that says,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game.
Fighting to keep the love of our spouses,
Fighting to keep the banks from taking our houses,
Fighting to keep the respect of our children,
"Making a living, not making a killing."*
Oh...
Let’s go.
As a First Nations leader, Gino Odjick met with the Pope,
it's true. (It’s true.)
Pope apologized for the Church's role
In Canada's residential schools.
I wonder was he tempted to grab him by the jersey and pop him a few?
But Gino forgave him, said it's time to work
Together to build the future anew.
Now he owns and runs the golf course out on the Musqueum
Leading young people with a strong example,
That is what he's always done.
There was a reason that the people always shouted his name:
They recognized the emotions playing across his face.
They recognized the feelings cause they knew they'd often felt the same,
It's a determined look that says,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game.
*”Making a living, not making a killing.”
is a phrase I heard from Utah Phillips, who lives on in song
Back in the time before Mike Keenan ruined watching the Canucks for me,
When he traded away Trevor Linden,
After letting Messier have the captaincy,
I used to like to watch Gino Odjick, he played the enforcer role.
Didn't have as much talent as some,
but he sure played with an awful lot of soul.
Now you can go ahead and be a jerk, and you can call him a goon.
But he fought like a kid in the schoolyard
Who was trying to make the bullies leave his little brother alone.
There was a reason that the people always shouted his name:
They recognized the emotions playing across his face.
They recognized the feelings ‘cause they knew they'd often felt the same,
It It's a determined look that says,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game.
Us Canadians like to believe that we're so polite and nice,
But we're more like the Romans than we know,
And we like to see a little blood on the ice.
But the armchair shouters and the TV clowns, they don't pay the butcher's bill.
It falls to people like Gino
To go out and bleed for the national spectacle.
But he never let himself become another casualty,
He took your worst impulses
And he turned them around, to lead a life of leadership and dignity.
There was a reason that the people always shouted his name:
They recognized the emotions playing across his face.
They recognized the feelings cause they knew they'd often felt the same,
It's a determined look that says,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game.
Fighting to keep the love of our spouses,
Fighting to keep the banks from taking our houses,
Fighting to keep the respect of our children,
"Making a living, not making a killing."*
Oh...
Let’s go.
As a First Nations leader, Gino Odjick met with the Pope,
it's true. (It’s true.)
Pope apologized for the Church's role
In Canada's residential schools.
I wonder was he tempted to grab him by the jersey and pop him a few?
But Gino forgave him, said it's time to work
Together to build the future anew.
Now he owns and runs the golf course out on the Musqueum
Leading young people with a strong example,
That is what he's always done.
There was a reason that the people always shouted his name:
They recognized the emotions playing across his face.
They recognized the feelings cause they knew they'd often felt the same,
It's a determined look that says,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game,
I'm just fighting to stay in the game.
*”Making a living, not making a killing.”
is a phrase I heard from Utah Phillips, who lives on in song
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from Canadiana Grotesquica,
released September 9, 2017
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Geoff Berner Vancouver, British Columbia
Singer / songwriter / accordionist / novelist Geoff Berner's music combines klezmer, punk, political satire and Balkan dance rhythms. He writes sharp, literate songs that make you want to weep, laugh, grind your teeth, or kick out a window - often all at the same time. Having built a cult following with his weirdly compelling stage presence, G.B. has a strange ability to create fun chaos. ... more
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