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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Our History: Songs looking to the past to help understand the present

Annexation (traditional)
Butterfield Waltz (Don Chambers)
Big Old Train (Luann Burton)
The Bitter End (Bruce Coughlan)

It’s a Great Place To Live: Songs giving a sense of the joys of living on the Peninsula

I’m Goin’ Everywhere Man (Don Chambers)
Deep Love, Deep Cove (Bruce Bowman, Dale Baglo, Duncan Meiklejohn)
Island Home in the Salish Sea (Casey Edge)
Salish Sea (Daniel Cook)
Low Tide on Pat Bay (Farrell Boyce)
The Arbutus Tree (Alan Moberg)
Seasons of the Sea (Tark Hamilton)

Romance: Songs that speak to the intimate relationship between passions for the Peninsula and those dedicated to significant others in our lives

Malahat Moon (Bryon Thompson)
Little Town by the Sea (Edie Daponte)
Keep On Growing (Farrell Boyce)
Putting Out to Sea (Tark Hamilton)

Fantastical Sea Creatures: The ocean has always been the inspiration for fantastic creatures and tales. The waters surrounding the Peninsula are no different, with a wide range of sea critters inhabiting our song writers’ imaginations

The Norris Beach Mermaids (Wendy McBride)
Call of the Cadborosaurus (Tark Hamilton)
Luigi, the Opera-Singing Octopus (David Wilkie and Denise Withnell)

Social Commentary: While it’s a pretty good life here on the Peninsula, it’s not perfect. There are a few things that “get in one’s craw” and deserve mention as potential improvements

Ode to Hartland (Robert Anderson)
The Bloody, Bloody Broom (Sam Gardiner)
Official Community Polka (Farrell Boyce)

To Do with Music: These songs celebrate the finding that music is a big part of community life on the Peninsula

Deep Cove Farewell (Shelley Posen)
Our Old Piano (Tark Hamilton)