Go, go Jets, go / The Whiteout is here / The Stanley Cup is so near
A pair of creative Winnipeg Jets fans have turned their passion for the team into a campfire anthem inspired by the NHL playoffs.
Go, go Jets, go! is a catchy, easy-listening piece of fan art with lyrics and melody by Winnipeggers Freya Hansen and Gary Wallace.
“It’s meant to be a light, positive message so we can all get together and get behind the team,” says Hansen, who grew up in Saskatchewan and became a Jets booster when the team returned to Winnipeg in 2011.
This is the amateur poet’s third attempt at recording a Jets-related song. While previous drafts involved hockey-fied lyrics to popular rock songs, Hansen decided to pen an original ditty for this year’s playoff run.
She asked Wallace, a friend from bridge and a hobbyist composer, to come up with some music to accompany …