Paddle Power Lyrics

Take my keg and my egg you'll soon know why

Hear the honking up in the sky

It's the great big V wild geese are pointing me

To paddle power

Paddling guitars are 6 foot two

Canadian-made blades chromium blue

Canoeing stories to be told about music and gold

They're paddling stories

Play your paddles and spin them back

And flash them with silver

Come follow the wild goose flight

Dip dip and swing ya dip dip and swing

All started when the gander carried me

Through the crazy year of 63

We ate atomic snow from mushrooms down below

Like cotton candy

No one heard the blasts in North Ontario

Only heard WLS in Chicago

It was 50,000 watts a lot of electric shocks

For my mutating mind

We paddled and we played acoustically

Jack and Jill and me Davie

Ringo was just the rattle made by my paddle

On the canoe's gunwale

Purists complained the group changed its sound

Then paddle power was so profound

We sent distortion through the air even lit up our hair

Used darned electric guitars

We played our paddles and spin them back

Flash them with silver

And we followed the wild goose flight

Dip dip and swing ya dip dip and swing

Paddle power fans loved the way I dressed

Moss-colored kilt birch bark vest

I always came ashore to the roar of fan approval

It was Paddle Mania

Paddled faster they wanted more

Then no one heard us in the rapids roar

Bush concerts had to end our lives to defend

So we sent videos in

Then the lyrics didn't matter beat became the thing

Went to rap and that gangster thing

What it all about sure wasn't twist and shout

It went from rapids to falls

Mother Goose she stopped laying golden eggs

Jack staked his claim and I drank the kegs

Jill let her music slip we let others sail the ship

We sang our swan song

Played our paddles and spin em back

We flashed them with silver

We Followed the wild goose flight

Dip dip and swing ya dip dip and swing

When I turned 50 I followed the V

I headed north to the bush country

And at its roads end I found a friend

My old Canoe

With keg and egg I traveled far

To where the rainbow meets the northern star

Beneath northern lights and moon I wrote this tune

This paddling song

Now this reeling rocking trolling thing

It's the canoeist anthem every spring

And new compositions abound with a natural sound

And that Ringo rattle

Next time you hear the honking up in the sky

Follow the leader I'll tell you why

They lay us golden eggs we attach them to our kegs

And we make paddle power

Played our paddles we spin em back

We flashed them with silver

We followed the wild goose flight

Dip dip and swing ya dip dip and swing

Dip dip and swing