The series of beeps at the start of the song is from a telegraph key playing SOS, according to a 2017 tweet by Alan Doyle of the Newfoundland music group Great Big Sea.
It was later revealed (and confirmed by Alan Doyle at the 2019 Juno Awards "Songwriter Circle") that the girl was Calgary singer/songwriter Jann Arden.
The song has gained recent popularity through its use in gameplay videos depicting death montages, usually in games such as Dark Souls and Bloodborne.
This showed a theme as in the previous tournament (held in Halifax and Moncton), Hockey Canada chose Heave Away, which also originates from Newfoundland and Labrador.
[2] In 2000, the Canadian Alliance used the song at political rallies to support Stockwell Day, without getting permission; Great Big Sea formally asked that this be stopped.