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Every year prairie girls from Radville or Craik or Kipling or Carnduff leave their homes to travel to the University of Regina to get their Bachelor of Education with hopes of returning to their dwindling communities.
Teaching is one of the few careers available in Saskatchewan rural communities. Family farms have been bought up by corporate farmers and in Saskatchewan the only non-cities that have shown growth are bedroom communities to Saskatoon and Regina. We’ve seen towns turn to villages, villages to hamlets and hamlets to ghost towns as the major centres take the high school graduates from rural communities and rarely give them back.

This song is a fictional story of a prairie girl who moves to Regina and falls in love with a boy who wants to leave Saskatchewan for bigger and better possibilities. But they are incompatible because she belongs in a world of farm land, pickup trucks, potlucks and room to roam; a place the city boy could never be happy in.

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Where did you come from?

Somewhere past Carlyle, grew up on volleyball games and gas station movies, graduated a year early, high-tailed it to the big city. Got a job selling clothes at the mall. Fell in love with the boy from Orange Julius.
But it made you miss home--- the streets you could count all the names you would know.

Oh, prairie girl. The sunrise is peaking. We stayed here too long, watching the starlight. There’s a lily on your shoulder. Staying is your game but every year I get older.

You spoke in an accent and followed it home. Burned through a B.Ed. then you made it back home to teacher younger yous and raise 2 or 3 on ice hockey games and farmer TV. Fell in love with another who would never leave, fall asleep to the wind blowing through barley fields.

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from Not Particularly Dignified or Newsworthy, released February 23, 2019

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Friend Friend Saskatchewan

For their Sophomore release; Not Particularly Dignified or Newsworthy Friend Friend partnered with their band member and producer, Matt Froese to create 5 Indie folk power-pop anthems for the everyman/woman.

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