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# From the Branches: It's my fifty mission cap
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/from-the-branches-its-my-fifty-mission-cap/
- Published: 2016-08-21T11:03:29.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-21T11:03:29.000Z
- Description: Farewell, Hip.
- Author: Achariya
- Tags: From The Branches, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:01

Bill Barilko disappeared that summer

He was on a fishing trip

The last goal he ever scored

Won the Leafs the cup

They didn’t win another till nineteen sixty two

The year he was discovered

I stole this from a hockey card

I keep tucked up under...

[Tragically Hip: Dying singer Gord Downie bids Canada farewell | BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37147588?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 "A Canadian band whose lead singer was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer have performed their last concert at the end of an emotional farewell tour."

[The Tragically Hip's Set List For The Aug. 20 Concert In Kingston | Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/08/21/tragically-hip-set-list-kingston-final-show-aug-20%5Fn%5F11636004.html?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 Guess the first song.

[The Tragically Hip tour setlists analyzed: songs played most and least | The Whig](http://www.thewhig.com/2016/08/19/the-tragically-hip-tour-setlists-analyzed-songs-played-most-and-least?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 "Narrowing the Tragically Hip's extensive career of classics down to a short list of essentials is an impossible task for many fans -- and it couldn't have been easy for the band for its much-anticipated 'Man Machine Poem' tour."

[Tragically Hip's Gord Downie saved my cat: former neighbour | Canoe News](http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2016/08/19/22660142.html?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 "To many Canadians, the Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie is a musical super hero. For Barry Godin, it’s not just because of the incredible performances."

[The Tragically Hip Feel the Canadian Love at Last of 3 Toronto Concerts | Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7469676/the-tragically-hip-gord-downie-toronto-concert?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 "Two huge visuals at both entrances to the venue announced 'Those Nights in Toronto' and new T-shirts were emblazoned with 'That Night in Toronto.'"

[On the Tragically Hip’s last stop: ‘This is carpe diem.’ | Maclean's](http://www.macleans.ca/culture/on-the-tragically-hips-last-stop-this-is-carpe-diem/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 As has been true on every stop on the Man Machine Poem tour, this is not a funeral, nor a wake. This is a rock’n’roll spectacle, not a rock’n’roll suicide. This is carpe diem. This is about: "Get it out, get it all out / Yea stretch that thing / Make it last, make it all last / At least until the supper bell rings." As every review has pointed out, as has been printed on T-shirts and even Downie’s boots, "no dress rehearsal, this is our life."

[The Hip show ends but the ovation unlikely to end any time soon | Ottawa Citizen](http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/music/the-hip-show-ends-but-the-ovation-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 "With a delirious sold-out crowd hanging on his every word and countless Canadians watching live on TV from their homes and public viewing parties, Gord Downie used the much-anticipated final show of the Tragically Hip’s 'Man Machine Poem' tour to campaign for Canada’s North."

[Love-in for the Hip at Rio’s Canada House: Arthur | Bruce Arthur in Rio](https://www.thestar.com/sports/olympics/2016/08/20/love-in-for-the-hip-at-rios-canada-house-arthur.html?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 It felt like a celebration for the folks at the Olympics watching Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip’s final performance of their Man Machine Poem tour.

> Pearl Jam's tribute to [@thehipdotcom](https://twitter.com/thehipdotcom?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) last night [https://t.co/LsTroQZfjl](https://t.co/LsTroQZfjl?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — James Mirtle (@mirtle) [August 21, 2016](https://twitter.com/mirtle/status/767329125640077313?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) 

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 "The Maple Leafs and Zaitsev were long rumoured to be working on a deal to bring the blueliner over to North American soil. It was finally made official and Zaitsev will be in Toronto for training camp."

[Toronto Maple Leafs Player Preview: Jake Gardiner | Editor in Leaf](http://editorinleaf.com/2016/08/20/toronto-maple-leafs-preview-gardiner/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
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[Maple Leafs Continue to Hunt for a Backup Goaltender | Hockey Buzz](http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Lucas-Neilson/Maple-Leafs-Continue-to-Hunt-for-a-Backup-Goaltender/222/78727?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
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[89 Champs: Where Are They Now: Mark Hunter | M&G](http://www.matchsticksandgasoline.com/2016/8/20/12514158/89-champs-where-are-they-now-mark-hunter?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
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[Toronto Maple Leafs: Shifting Toward A Non-Fighting Sport | Editor in Leaf](http://editorinleaf.com/2016/08/19/toronto-maple-leafs-non-fighting-sport/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)  
 "As entertaining as hockey fights are, there is no statistical value to their existence. Games are won and lost on the scoreboard via goals and fighting doesn’t contribute to that statistic."

### What is the best Tragically Hip song?

| Bobcaygeon              | 31 |
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| Ahead by a Century      | 26 |
| Courage                 | 7  |
| Fifty Mission Cap       | 25 |
| Nautical Disaster       | 26 |
| Other: Will write below | 35 |