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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
My only objection as well - it makes absolutely no sense. I'm not sure I can bring myself to sing that. Although frankly, "in all thy sons command" is pretty awkward too. "Thou dost in us command" is archaic but at least it makes sense... go back to that, maybe?
Actually, let's just scrap the whole thing, change it to Northwest Passage and call it a day.
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It makes sense, it's just kind of awkward. Canada is the subject, and the singers are the object. So Canada commands true patriot love in all of us. It just sounds weird because the verb is at the end, but that's how it has always been.