Rita MacNeil
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Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she had hits on the country charts throughout her career. In the United Kingdom, MacNeil's song "Working Man" was a No. 11 hit in 1990.
In 1990, she was the bestselling country artist in Canada, outselling even Garth Brooks and Clint Black. She was also the only female singer ever to have three separate albums chart in the same year in Australia.
Throughout her career MacNeil would receive five Honorary degrees, release 24 albums, win three Juno Awards, four CCMA awards, eleven ECMA awards, be inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and be named to the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada.
Personal life
Early years
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- Late December released: 2003
- Volume One, Songs From the Collection released: 1994
- Reason to Believe released: 1988
- Now The Bells Ring released:
- Flying on Your Own released:
- Reason to Believe released:
- Thinking of You released:
- Joyful Sounds released:
- Home I'll Be released:
Joyful Sounds
- The Carollers
- Joyful Sounds
- Rocking the Cradle
- A Night to Remember
- Onec Upon a Christmas
- Bright Light
- Good King Wenceslas
- The Gift of Love
- Mary Mary
- With My Family
- When It Comes to Christmas
- Adeste Fideles
- Silent Night
- Now the Bells Ring
- The Season Will Never Grow Old
- Blue Christmas
- Christmas Has Meaning
- The Holly
- Mother Mary
- Away in a Manger
- Christmas at Home
- O Holy Night
Born: 1944-05-28
Died: 2013-04-16
Rita MacNeil, Marilyn Inch
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You Can't Go Home Again
by: Rita MacneilYou can't go home again
You can't go home again
And where you played as children
The field has grown in
And the hill overlooking
What used to be your home
You walk among strangers now
Trying to hold your own
And all the I remember when's
Are treasures that you own
And don't be disappointed
If you sometimes stand alone
Among memories, old pictures and old poems
You can't go home again
You can't go home again
And trying to hold yesterday
Is like arms around the wind
And the memories that brought you here
They keep you on the edge
Always on the outside
Trying to see within
And all the I remember when's
Are treasures that you own
And don't be disappointed
If you sometimes stand alone
Among memories, old pictures and old poems
You can't go home again
You can't go home again
And where you once walked easy
Now blows a restless wind
And the heart when overtaken
By feelings long ago
Can sometimes disappoint you
When cooler breezes blow
And all the I remember when's
Are treasures that you own
And don't be disappointed
If you sometimes stand alone
Among memories, old pictures and old poems