Jully Black Will Change ‘O Canada’ Lyrics For Toronto Graduation Performance To ‘Home On Native Land’
When Jully Black performs Canada’s national anthem at the Toronto Metropolitan University’s graduation ceremony on Tuesday, July 27, she’ll be tweaking the lyrics to make an important point.As CBC News reports, the “Seven Day Fool” singer will be altering the lyrics to “O Canada” at the behest of the university, changing “our home and native land” to “our home on native land,” in acknowledgement of Canada’s theft of Indigenous land.“It’s amazing not to feel invisible anymore, and to be welcomed into a space and asked to contribute to something so beautiful,” she said.Read More: Jully Black Honoured By Assembly Of First Nations After Changing ‘O Canada’ LyricsBlack had previously made the same lyric change when she sang the anthem back in February at the NBA All-Star game, and explained that the school — which recently changed its name from Ryerson University to Toronto...
