Northern Lights

I’d thought about writing a song about the northern lights in Canada for awhile. Then I read that Cochrane, Ontario is a good place to see them, and that got me hauling out the atlas (I love songs with place references).  The Spanish River and Lac Sainte Therese (sorry, bad pronunciation) are located in Ontario too. The reference to Inco (mining/metals company) is a tip of the hat to Canadian songwriter Stompin’ Tom Connors’ “Sudbury Saturday Night,” – and to the dad of a musician friend, who’d talked about the tough conditions there.