Stan Rogers: Difference between revisions

* [[Anti-Christmas Song]]: "First Christmas" isn't strictly anti-Christmas, but as Rogers believed Christmas was a time not just for celebration but for deep, sober reflection, it's depressing.

** "At Last I'm Ready For Christmas" tries to be, but, like the narrator, the song's heart just isn't in it.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In "The Idiot", the narrator's complaints about his job out west are the desolate landscape, the refinery fumes, and the cowboy clothes they wear.

* [[Author Existence Failure]]: [[What Could Have Been|Who knows what else he might have done?]]

* [[Signature Song]]: "Barrett's Privateers"

* [[Take That]]: Ontario's tourism industry came out with the slogan "No place you'd rather be." Stan's response, from ''Watching the Apples Grow'':

I'd rather live by the sea. }}

* [[War of 1812]]: "Billy Green" tells the story of the famous Billy Green the Scout who "helped defeat the Yank invaders". "MacDonnell on the Heights" tells of the Battle of Queenston Heights. "The Nancy" is about a skirmish between the crew of the titular ship and some American forces.