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Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, in 1842, after the Lower cCanada Rebellion of 1837 in which many rebels were executed or exiled to the United States. Antoine's friend, who had been exiled told him of the terrible consequences and pain of his exile and thus instilled in Antoine the need to write the poem . The tune is an old Quebecois one:

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