This track has a nice country shuffle feel. A gift to Hamilton, Ontario... the song documents the fight against "the great white plague" of tuberculosis around the turn of the 20th century, and the cross which came to symbolize that struggle... at Chedoke Hospital
Lyrics
High above Dundas Valley she stands
Our lady of the mountain, watching over this land
See her red light shining from the valley below
Hear the wings of an angel that nobody knows
A friend to the soldiers in the medical wars
The children, the Innu, the people next door
See her red light shining from the valley below
Hear the wings of an angel that nobody knows
It’s a crying shame ya ya ya (x2)
It’s a crying shame, this white plague
But she’s a Cross of Lorraine, a Cross of Lorraine (x2)
And you know that she never forgets a tear
That face in the lamplight through the years
See her red light shining on the valley below
Hear the wings of an angel that nobody knows
It’s a crying shame ya ya ya (x2)
It’s a crying shame, this white plague
But she’s a Cross of Lorraine, a Cross of Lorraine (x2)