Folk ballad, written in traditional form. The story of a young woman killed by coyotes in Cape Breton. The first known predatory death by coyotes.

Come Dancing On the Cabot Trail

A migrant worker, lonely and far away from home is lovesick. 

Dance Hall Girls

Relationships. Can't live with them, can't live without them. 
It takes a lot of TLC from both sides to give them a chance to blossom and deepen.  

One Foot Out The Door

Gambling on the ponies: Quarter horse racing, fastest animal for one quarter mile! 

Picov Downs

Country waltz by two leading Canadian singer-songwriters, Marianne Girard and Allan Fraser. Sadness from love leads the protagonist to fly back and forth from St Louis to the north. Old folks are waltzing. Insane, naked in the rain.  

Outside St Louis

Hard driving folk roots ballad about love and gambling at the horse race track. Pretty ponies. Fastest thing alive. Quarter Mile race.

Inspiring folk ballad of a woman with special needs who manages to get along and shares her memories and insights.

My Name Is Carol

Recorded live at Fred Eaglesmith's Anuual Charity Picnic 2015, a powerful performance of Marianne Girard's song about a unrepentant woman in prison for murdering her husband.

Hard Time

Heart-warming love song by Canadian roots music duo Fraser & Girard about new-found love. Marianne Girard wrote this song with Nancy Simmonds.

You Make Me Lovely

R&B unplugged love song about intimacy and love.

I Am Your Confidant

Describes the happiness and excitement of new found love sung in perfect harmony by two of Canada's favorite singer-songwriters, Marianne Girard and Allan Fraser (Fraser & Girard). This song was written as a wedding gift to celebrate the marriage of Marianne's daughter.

Fraser & Girard

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