In nineteen-hundred and fifty-seven
When you were just a kid in school
And Cassius Clay was an amateur
Hustling down in Louisville
Dief come out of Prince Albert
And he said he was a man with a dream
Now in '74 Clay's the champ once more
And I know Dief will be the chief again
Dief is the chief, Dief is the chief
Dief will be the chief again
Everybody's happy back in '57
And nobody's happy since then
There was law in the land, order in the home
Swimming in the river back then
And I know in my heart that Dief will be the chief
And the dollar worth a dollar again
Well he lost in '25 and he lost in '26
And in '29 but he never lost heart
He lost in '38 and he lost in '39
And the forties was mostly dark
But in '53 he married Olive
And together they ruled the land
And with Olive by his side, the queen of his heart
Dief will be the chief again
Dief is the chief, Dief is the chief
Dief will be the chief again
Everybody's happy back in '57
And nobody's happy since then
There was law in the land, order in the home
Swimming in the river back then
And I know in my heart that Dief will be the chief
And the dollar worth a dollar again
Now we got a man up in Ottawa
He's got cold water in his veins
You know that he don't give a darn about you
And he don't hear when you complain
But Dief come out of Prince Albert
He was raised in the prairie grain
And he always had a hand for the working man
Dief will be the chief again
Dief is the chief, Dief is the chief
Dief will be the chief again
Everybody's happy back in '57
And nobody's happy since then
There's a famine in the land, a mortgage on your home
Strikes without any end
But I know in my heart that Dief will be the chief
And the dollar worth a dollar again
He's Chief Walking Buffalo to the people of the Sioux
Honorary Chief Eagle to the Cree
He's a customary colonel up in Saskatoon
And a personal acquaintance of the queen
He's a Baptist and a Kingsman and Kiwanis man too
And he was eighty on September eighteen *
and he always had a hand for the working man
Dief will be the chief again
Dief is the chief, Dief is the chief
Dief will be the chief again
Everybody's happy back in '57
And nobody's happy since then
There was law in the land, order in the home
Swimming in the river back then
And I know in my heart that Dief will be the chief
And the dollar worth a dollar again
Dief is the chief, Dief is the chief
Dief will be the chief again
Everybody's happy back in '57
And nobody's happy since then
There was law in the land, order in the home
Swimming in the river back then
And I know in my heart that Dief will be the chief
And the dollar worth a dollar again
Dief is the chief, Dief is the chief
Dief will be the chief again
Everybody's happy back in '57
And nobody's happy since then
There was law in the land, order in the home
Swimming in the river back then
And I know in my heart that Dief will be the chief
And the dollar worth a dollar again
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* - "And on that day, September 18, 1974, John Diefenbaker's 80th
birthday, they interviewed him on TV -- and I remember it to this day
-- at the end the interviewer said:"
"Mr. Diefenbaker, I hope I'm around to interview you on your 90th
birthday."
"...to which Dief replied, 'I don't see why not. You look well.' " |
