Connie Kaldor 2016 CBC Poet Laureate: Frontier College Bonspiel for Literacy

Curling song: written on the spot by Connie for the 25th bonspiel at the Toronto Cricket 2016

HMm HMM

And it’s hurry hurry hurry hard
Every shot is sweet
‘Cause curlers never kiss and tell
What goes on between the sheets.

Hurry Hurry hurry hard
Who knows when you may steal
You’re all winners at the
Frontier College 25th Bonspiel

We all know the Scotts are a torturous lot
Look at Golf, that is their game
And after they’d ruined summer
they took winter and did the same.

In the coldest time of year , they said
Let’s make a game on Ice
let’s get a really heavy rock and push it once or twice.
Then let’s invite the English
give ’em brooms to sweep the rink
And when their balls have frozen off
We’ll all go in and drink

Hmm Hmm

And it’s hurry hurry hurry hard
Every shot is sweet
‘Cause curlers never kiss and tell
What goes on between the sheets.

Hurry Hurry hurry hard
Who knows when you may steal
You’re all winners at the
Frontier College 25th bonspiel

Now women we love curling
Our reason’s not too deep
Its the thrill of having the rare chance
Of watching men sweep.

Its a mad game and a good game
It’s “the sheet”to play
and it opens doors to reading if you’re at the rink today

Chorus

So there’s Think Insure and Unico
and then there’s RSA
Intact Ridley Travellers that were insured to play
There’s Mike and Ryan Olympians
Mike McCormick who’s a singer
Sally and Greg’s daughter Sam who’s
definitely a ringer.
So Drink up your cup of coffee
Grab your Broom and Go
COBT hopes to get the hammer
Cause it’s something that they know.

Chorus

Some are looking good out there
Some give it all they’ve got
Some are just first timers who get a lucky shot.
Look at Franca and Teem GRL Powrie
They play like anything
It’s not time to think insure gals
Time to think inside the ring.

If you are Mike and Ryan
you know how to make it stay
If you are MS Gzowski
you push the thing and pray
Sometimes it is by inches
Sometimes it is a yard
You are aiming for the button
And your rock ends up a guard

We won’t all make the Briar
Or the tournament of hearts
But you’ve helped a team of others
help another get a start.

so its hurry hurry hurry hard
Roll it through or stick it
you get to hear the bagpipes
when you curl Toronto Cricket
Hurry hurry hurry hard
for 25 good years
Raise a toast to sponsors
and Frontier Volunteers.