SONS OF LABRADOR (INNUGIAMIK LABRADORIMI)

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“Sons of Labrador (Innugiamik Labradorimi)”
The Flummies
From the album Labradorimiut, 2000.
Used with permission of The Flummies.
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Person list

Words and tune:

  • Sid Dicker

Locations associated with this song:

Background Info:

Sid Dicker of Nain, Labrador wrote this very popular song. Mr Dicker performed music for Labrador radio stations from the 1940s to the 1980s. He wrote Sons of Labrador in English and later translated it into Inuktitut. It was used as the signature tune for the Okalakatiget Society TV broadcast in Nain. It has been recorded by The Flummies on their album Labradorimiut (Independent recording, 2000).
Eric West, Come Big Ones and Small Ones...Songs of Newfoundland & Labrador –Volume 5
© Vinland Music. Reproduced with permission

Lyrics:

SONS OF LABRADOR – By Sid Decker

To be a part of this great land,
Should be the pride of any man,
To know that we were born on these great shores;
So listen while I tell,
And it makes my old heart swell,
I'm proud to be a son of Labrador.

Chorus: Its rugged mountains rise above the oceans,
Where polar bears and seals are to be found;
Its sparkling rivers flow through mountain valleys,
Where the caribou and wolf and fox abound.

I love to hear the call,
Of the geese in the early fall,
And see the black bear roaming by the shore;
And hunt the arctic hare,
Or fish the arctic char,
There's no place on this earth like Labrador.

There's not much more to say,
But I know we're here to stay,
To live and hunt and trap on this great land;
But most of all to me,
Is to have the liberty,
To be a son of Northern Labrador.

Singable Inuktitut translation:

I-li-nga-gia-Ka-mut nu-nat-sia-mut
pi-gi-ju-gin-na-tla-puk ki-na-tuin-na-mut
Kau-ji-mal-lu-ta i-no-li-si-ma-gat-ta nu-nat-sia-mi
Nâ-la-lau-git u-Kâ-la-ti-lu-nga pi-ju-ge-tla-pu-nga
In-niu-gia-mik Lâ-ba-dur-ri-mi

Kor: Kak-Ka-sua-ngit pot-tu-jut i-map-piup sa-nia-ni Na-nuit,
pui-je-lu i-ni-gi-jâ-ngin-ni
kop-sua-ngit kop-tla-pot nu-nat-sua-mi
Tut-tuit, a-ma-guit, ti-gi-gan-nia-lu nu-na-ngin-ni

Tu-san-ni-gi-tla-tak-ka nil-let nil-lia-ma-ta
Ta-ku-lu-ta-lu a-tla-nik sit-ja-mi
I-Ka-lun-nia-lu-ta-lu u-ka-lin-nia-lu-ta-lu
At-ji-Ka-ngi-lak Lâ-ba-dur-ri si-lak-sua-mi

Kor:

from Come Big Ones and Small Ones...Songs of Newfoundland & Labrador –Volume 5

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