Oldest Oak at Brookside

Oldest Oak at Brookside - John K. Samson

Before we built that smirking airport

Before the phones told us where to go

Before the strike before the streetcar

Before we read comics on the radio

Long before we found a way to gauge the coldest day

Before the flood before the treaty

Before we broke a promise to appear

Before we drew the new team logo

Before the taste of malathion lingered here

Way before we skated down the Eaton Place parkade

Before we built that

Before the fire

You were lifted by a blue jay beating wings above a sea

With a wave of grazing bison tall grass prairie

You were set in sandy soil and stand a mighty oak

Stand a mighty oak