"Canadian Railroad Trilogy"
Single by Gordon Lightfoot
from the album The Way I Feel
Released	1967
Recorded	1966
Genre	Folk
Length	6:22
Label	United Artists
Writer(s)	Gordon Lightfoot

The Canadian Railroad Trilogy is a song by Gordon Lightfoot which describes the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Image File history File links Nocover. ... In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less*) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides, usually remixes or other songs. ... The Way I Feel can refer to: a 1964 album titled The Way I Feel by John Patton a 1967 album titled The Way I Feel by Gordon Lightfoot a 1975 album titled The Way I Feel by Nikki Giovanni a 1976 album titled The Way I Feel by Sonny... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Folk Music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the common people. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... United Artists Records was a record label founded by United Artists soon after its own founding in 1919 to distribute soundtracks from its movies. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Gordon Lightfoot, Gords Gold Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. ... The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. ...

This song was commissioned by the CBC for a special broadcast on January 1, 1967. It appeared on Lightfoot's The Way I Feel album later in the same year. The structure of the song was patterned after Gibson & Camp's Civil War Trilogy, with a slow tempo section in the middle and faster paced sections at the beginning and end. In the first section, the song picks up speed like a locomotive building up a head of steam. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The Way I Feel is the second studio album for Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, originally released in 1967 on the United Artists label. ... In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for time) is the speed or pace of a given piece. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ...

While Lightfoot's song echoes the optimism of the railroad age, it also chronicles the cost in sweat and blood of building the "iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea".

Lightfoot re-recorded the track on his 1975 compilation album, Gord's Gold. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Gords Gold is a compilation album released by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot in 1975. ...

The song has been covered by John Mellencamp and George Hamilton IV, among others. James Keelaghan performed the song on the Lightfoot tribute album, Beautiful. John Mellencamp, Circa 1996, from johnmellencamp. ... George Hamilton IV is an American country musician, known across the world for singles like Before This Day Ends and Abilene. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, only later switching to pop-country, then folk music. ... James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter. ...

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