I have learned a lot about my Acadian heritage this year so I wrote a song about the Acadian Expulsion by the British and the Acadian and Mi'kmaq resistance that followed. The Mi'kmaq and Acadians were allied against the British colonies during this time in history (mid-late 1700's). Many Mi'kmaq and Acadian families were intermarried at the time of the expulsion. There is even an account of 1,000 Acadians being protected by the Mi'kmaq in the interior of Nova Scotia in present day Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site.
I am writing a song on guitar for it but here are the lyrics so far:
I’ve lived in this house for many a year
Worked this land with my blood sweat and tears
Just to have it all taken away
I can still smell Fundy’s salty spray
We came to this wild, far away land
Befriended the people of the dawn
Became brothers and sisters and lived in peace
Harmony with the land
Foreign battles raged far away
Away from our tranquil farm fields
Fields of blood, carnage and war
A storm was coming our way
Allegiance we’ll never swear to a land we don’t know
Mistrust so they forced us to go
They rounded us like cattle and shipped us to sea
Goddamn them all the hell
We continue to fight for this land
Small groups of brothers in arms
To rid this evil from the land
The blood coats greed never quenched
A blood coat’s boot tired to stamp it out
Spreading the embers far and wide
Only now growing stronger by the day
The flames are rising with the tide