I Paddle My Canoe Lyrics - Jane Siberry

Oh, I don't like the look of the look of today 

A great gray cloud is coming our way 

So I move through the streets on my own 

A-huffing and a-puffing and feeling so alone 

O grandfather, grandfather 

Will you wake up? 

Will you take up these threads? 

O grandmother, grandmother 

I am walking on such thin ice 

I wonder how you feel? 

And a fire is burning in the fireplace 

And the windows crackle with rain 

Feels so part of my place 

So I leave my sleeping ancients 

And I walk down the steps 

And I move to the edge of the forest 

Where I lay my heaviness 

Oh, where is my sweet puppy? 

Oh, there you are 

You're never far behind 

Sometimes he seems like a little lamb 

So I push off from the shore 

I press my face against the watery place 

I push off from the shore 

My sweet dog and you 

I paddle my canoe 

Across the water and home to you 

Way back then, way back then 

My grandfather sleeping by the fire 

Way back then, way back then 

My grandmother dreaming of desire 

Way back then, way back there 

My sweet family 

I will return someday 

But on this gray afternoon 

There's something that I must obey 

So I paddle my canoe out across the bay 

The end of an endless day 

My puppy and me 

Across the water and home to thee