The Black Fly Song

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The Black Fly Song is a song by Wade Hemsworth, written in 1949 or 1955 (sources disagree). A song about working in the wilds of Northern Ontario, it is an enduring classic of Canadian folk music, covered by a variety of other artists and made into an animated short film by the National Film Board in 1991. [1]

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And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' my bones
In North Ontar-i-o-i-o, In North Ontar-i-o

(Note: for artistic effect, the i in Ontario is pronounced as a long i ("eye") sound rather than the "ee" sound normally used in pronouncing the name.)

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