"Mon pays" ("My Country", or "My Homeland", in English) is a song composed by Quebec singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault in 1964.
[1] The song consists of six stanzas of lyrics about winds, cold, snow, and ice, of the solitude of wide open spaces and of the ideal of brotherhood.
[7] Vigneault won the Prix Félix-Leclerc at the 1965 Festival du disque de Montréal for the song.
[8] Later that same year, Monique Leyrac performed it at the International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland, taking first prize with it.
This song with English lyrics by Gene Williams unrelated to the original French, was an international hit for Gallant[10] - Canada/ #6 Pop, #1 Adult Contemporary,[11]/ the UK/ #6, Ireland/ #5, Australia/ #10, the Netherlands/ #15, Norway/ #7, South Africa/ #5, Sweden/ #17, - and in 1995 reached #5 in Austria via a remake credited to N.Y.L.A.