Canada, you are indeed a land of multi-cultural Immigrants
Many people heard your call and they came
Macedonians leave their beloved homeland
Your promise of hope and freedom they come to claim.
You invite them, come people from Aegean, Pirrin, Vardar
Come; join other new life seeking peoples
Leave Macedonia, as children will one day leave home
Come; build families, homes, businesses, Churches with steeples.
You counsel them, embrace me and I will embrace you
Nothing will be given to you, nothing here is free
Macedonians are not strangers to hard times or hard work
Things will go well here, endure you will see.
You persuade them, give me your youth, muscle, sweat
Give me your hopes, dreams, your plans, your brain
Establishing a foothold in this new country will be hard
Remember immigrant, it's your children who will reap and gain.
And work they did, daytime, night time, part time, overtime
In slaughterhouses, tanneries, factories, restaurants and mill
No work was too hard, or beneath such a hardy people
As these freedom loving Macedonians, of intelligence and will.
They rub shoulders with the multiracial people of Canada
Learn the English language; retain culture and make themselves a place
Their honest, and religious character, prove them second to none
In Business, Arts, Academics, Sports they brng honor to their Race.
One day when we sons and daughters, stand at our parents graves
After those hope seeking immigrants, have ended their days of toil
We will understand it is our roots we plant; for far from Macedonia
Our parent's bodies will become part of Canada's soil.