PERI: It’s hard to misread lyrics like “American woman, stay away from me.” But commercials use your song to sell U.S. pride. Are we just a stupid country? RB: We find it pretty confusing, but we’re just kind of amused. This was a protest song from 1970, a bunch of Canadian guys writing an antiwar tune. BC: I always thought the song was really more pro-Canadian than it was anti-American. What I was thinking at the time was more like, “Canadian woman, I like you. Canadian woman, I sort of prefer you.” But I guess it came out different.
