Calypso - part 5

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What pecan pie is to the Southern U.S., and treacle pie to England, butter tarts are to Canada--or parts of Canada, at any rate: the Maritimes, Ontario, desultory spots on the Prairies. There are many choices as to style (oozy, firm), solids (nuts, chocolate chips), crust (lard, butter, Crisco)--but simple is best: butter, brown sugar, an egg, vanilla, a few currents in a very short crust. There's no better accompaniment to tea.

Butter Tarts
© 1997 Shelley Posen  Well Done Music  BMI

You may talk about your pastries of Vienna
Or the cakes they sell in Paris à la carte
Such as almond Pithiviers or Gâteau Saint Honoré
But there’s none that can compare with butter tarts.
Butter tarts, butter tarts
No, there’s none that can compare with butter tarts.

Oh, we eat them by the dozens at the cottage
In the country they’re a kind of tourist art
There is many a city slicker driving with a bumper sticker
That reads, CAUTION: THIS CAR BRAKES FOR BUTTER TARTS.
Butter tarts, butter tarts
That reads, CAUTION: THIS CAR BRAKES FOR BUTTER TARTS.

Now, there’s some that like the filling almost solid
For the robust, chewy texture it imparts
While others, just as choosy, like it syrupy and oozy
You just can’t account for taste in butter tarts.
Butter tarts, butter tarts
You just can’t account for taste in butter tarts.

Well, I can’t resist a piece of apple strudel
I’ve a tender spot for shortbread in my heart
I can always justify a second piece of cherry pie
But quite frankly I’d prefer a butter tart.
Butter tart, butter tart
Yes, quite frankly I’d prefer a butter tart.

Au Québèc, on mange le tir sur neige au printemps
En hiver y’a la poutine et la tourtière 
En automne les fèves au lard, et le rôti de canard
Mais toute l’année on peut manger les tartes au beurre.
Tartes au beurre, tartes au beurre.
Oui, toute l’année on peut manger les tartes au beurre.

Now from time to time this country looks quite fragile
And threatens every day to come apart
But anglophone or Québecois, east to west ’cross Canada
People stick together ’cause of butter tarts.
Butter tarts, butter tarts
People stick together ’cause of butter tarts.
Butter tarts, butter tarts—
They’re a good excuse to stay intact
They may be all we’ve got, in fact—
We’re Canadian as a dozen butter tarts.

01 Segundo - The Father of Calypso

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