First Line:
Wolves don't live by the rules
Artist & Tune
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About the Song
Wolves don't live by the rules (4x)
C G Am - (4x)
Valleys to hills you can hear the cry
They have to fight to stay alive
No one can change it, Mother Nature knows the reason why
F - G - (3x)
They're born to kill & to be free
Their life is hard which is meant to be
The cry of the wild is the only way they can see
- words & music by Willie Thrasher. (c) 1981 author. All rights reserved. Thrasher recorded the song on his 1981 LP "Spirit Child" released by the CBC. The album was re-issued in 2015 by Light in the Attic Records.
The the song is described as "a tribute to survival, to nomadism & to the free spirit of the Inuit people," as well as an ode to animal life & spirituality.
Elisapie, another Inuit singer songwriter, recorded the song on her 2015 "Ballad of the Runaway Girl" album on Attic Records. "Wolves" was the first single released from the album. Elesapie credits Thrasher as a major early influence on her music. She says that "Willie Thrasher gave me strength. I was finding myself in him. Somehow, his life was torn from him. He was sent to a residential school in the south. He lost his language & his traditional Inuit way of life. Willie Thrasher did not have an easy path, but he is a fighter."
Elisapie's single of the song was accompanied by a video featuring a collage of archival footage filmed up north in the 1960s that represents the change felt in the Inuit community during that time.
C G Am - (4x)
Valleys to hills you can hear the cry
They have to fight to stay alive
No one can change it, Mother Nature knows the reason why
F - G - (3x)
They're born to kill & to be free
Their life is hard which is meant to be
The cry of the wild is the only way they can see
- words & music by Willie Thrasher. (c) 1981 author. All rights reserved. Thrasher recorded the song on his 1981 LP "Spirit Child" released by the CBC. The album was re-issued in 2015 by Light in the Attic Records.
The the song is described as "a tribute to survival, to nomadism & to the free spirit of the Inuit people," as well as an ode to animal life & spirituality.
Elisapie, another Inuit singer songwriter, recorded the song on her 2015 "Ballad of the Runaway Girl" album on Attic Records. "Wolves" was the first single released from the album. Elesapie credits Thrasher as a major early influence on her music. She says that "Willie Thrasher gave me strength. I was finding myself in him. Somehow, his life was torn from him. He was sent to a residential school in the south. He lost his language & his traditional Inuit way of life. Willie Thrasher did not have an easy path, but he is a fighter."
Elisapie's single of the song was accompanied by a video featuring a collage of archival footage filmed up north in the 1960s that represents the change felt in the Inuit community during that time.