Marion Parsons' Songbook

 The MS St. Louis was an ocean liner that left Germany in May of 1939 carrying 937 Jewish refugees.  After not being permitted to land in Cu...

This is based on a story my father often told about his first night on a troopship leaving Canada for the Second World War (December 16, ...

This song is dedicated to the seventy-five children buried in an unmarked common grave in the Park Lawn cemetery of Etobicoke, Onta...

Lyrics by Marion Parsons © 2004; music traditional A synopsis of L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables" set to the Can...

Lyrics and music by Marion Parsons © 2004 True story of the “Cellist of Sarajevo” who played in the streets to honour bombing victims; se...

 Lyrics by Marion Parsons © 2002, music traditional True story of an English “Barnardo Boy” who came to Canada as a farm labourer in the e...

 Lyrics and music by Marion Parsons © 2003 This one was written on a train in Germany; it’s not a true story, just having some fun with bl...