Bobcaygeon (song)

"Bobcaygeon" is a song by Canadian alternative rock group The Tragically Hip. It was released in February 1999 as a single from their sixth album, Phantom Power. The song is named after Bobcaygeon, Ontario, a town in the Kawartha Lakes region about 160 km (100 mi) northeast of Toronto. Its lyrics also obliquely reference the Christie Pits riot of 1933, which arose from tensions between Toronto's working-class Jewish community and anti-semitic Swastika clubs following a baseball game ("their voices rang with that Aryan twang"). The song won the Juno Award for Single of the Year in 2000.^[1]^[2]

Justin Rutledge recorded a cover of the song on his 2014 EP Spring Is a Girl.

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart^[3]	3
Canadian RPM Rock Report^[4]	2
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Chart^[5]	43

References

↑ Foley, Doug (2000-03-13). "Super Celebration; Junos are a crowd pleaser for TV and music fans alike" (Pay-per-view). The Spectator (Hamilton). Retrieved 2010-05-11.
↑ "2000 Juno Awards". MetroLeap Media. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
↑ "Top Singles - Volume 68, No. 24, April 5 1999". RPM. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
↑ "Rock/Alternative - Volume 69, No. 4, May 17 1999". RPM. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
↑ "Adult Contemporary - Volume 69, No. 10, June 28 1999". RPM. Retrieved 2012-05-22.

External links

"Bobcaygeon" Official music video on YouTube

Preceded by "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies	Juno Award for Best Single 2000	Succeeded by "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado

The Tragically Hip

Gordon Downie Rob Baker Johnny Fay Paul Langlois Gord Sinclair Davis Manning

Studio albums	Up to Here Road Apples Fully Completely Day for Night Trouble at the Henhouse Phantom Power Music @ Work In Violet Light In Between Evolution World Container We Are the Same Now for Plan A

Live albums	Live Between Us

EPs	The Tragically Hip

Compilations	Hipeponymous Yer Favourites

DVDs	Heksenketel That Night in Toronto

Singles	"Small Town Bring-Down" "Highway Girl" "Blow at High Dough" "New Orleans Is Sinking" "Boots or Hearts" "38 Years Old" "Trickle Down" "Little Bones" "Three Pistols" "Twist My Arm" "Long Time Running" "On the Verge" "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" "Fifty Mission Cap" "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" "At the Hundredth Meridian" "Looking for a Place to Happen" "Fully Completely" "Land" "Grace, Too" "Greasy Jungle" "Nautical Disaster" "So Hard Done By" "Scared" "Thugs" "Ahead by a Century" "Gift Shop" "700 Ft. Ceiling" "Flamenco" "Springtime in Vienna" "Poets" "Something On" "Fireworks" "Thompson Girl" "Bobcaygeon" "My Music at Work" "Lake Fever" "The Completists" "Freak Turbulence" "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken" "Silver Jet" "The Darkest One" "Vaccination Scar" "Summer's Killing Us" "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" "In View" "The Lonely End of the Rink" "Yer Not the Ocean" "Family Band" "Love Is a First" "Morning Moon" "Speed River" "At Transformation" "Streets Ahead"

Related articles	Discography Another Roadside Attraction Canadian rock Trailer Park Boys Made in Canada The Sweet Hereafter Side projects: Coke Machine Glow Battle of the Nudes The Grand Bounce Stripper's Union Stripper's Union Local 518

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