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W'en you come wes' from de oder place / An' you want sometings for see; / Jus' come an' see St. Boniface / An' I show you sometings, me: / Dar's de Mission Church dat W'ittier sing -- -- / "Turrets twain," wher' de peoples prayed; / But dar's sometings we got better still -- -- / Da's St. Boniface Fire Brigade!
Da's a g-rea-t Brigade; -- has mans tree, four -- -- / Married mans wit be-eg fam-i-lee; / Champeau, Dorien, petite Lafleur, / An' Jean Perriault (da's ME). / Us mans we work like h -- ll all day / Wit de saw, de hammer an' de spade, / But by gar, w'en de fire-bell she goes "ring," / Da's de t'am we don't was 'fraid.