List [amended 2011-03]
| Rank | Song | Artist |
| 1 | Suzanne [1966] | Leonard Cohen |
| 1.1 | Helpless | Neil Young |
| 2 | Famous Blue Raincoat | Leonard Cohen |
| 4 | Early Morning Rain | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 4.1 | That's What you Get for Lovin' Me | Gordon Lightfoot. |
| 5 | Cowgirl in the Sand | Neil Young |
| 6 | Echo Beach | Martha & the Muffins |
| 7 | Lovers in a Dangerous Time | Bruce Cockburn. |
| 8 | Venice is Sinking | Spirit of the West |
| 9 | Old Man | Neil Young |
| 9.5 | The Weight | tthe Band |
| 10 | Both Sides Now | Joni Mitchell |
| 11 | Heart of Gold | Neil Young |
| 12 | Barrett's Privateers | Stan Rogers |
| 12.5 | Superman's Song | Crash Test Dummies |
| 12.75 | Dream Away | Northern Pikes |
| 13 | Court and Spark | Joni Mitchell |
| 14 | Tears of Rage | the Band |
| 14.1 | Where Evil Grows | Poppy Family |
| 14.2 | American Woman | The Guess Who |
| 15 | You Were on my Mind | Ian & Sylvia |
| 15.5 | Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm | Crash Test Dummies |
| 16 | Montreal | Blue Rodeo |
| 17 | Stage Fright | The Band |
| 19 | Born to be Wild | Steppenwolf |
| 20 | First We Take Manhattan | Leonard Cohen |
| 21 | Down by the River | Neil Young |
| 22 | Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen |
| 23 | Wake Up | Arcade Fire |
| 24 | Scared | Tragically Hip |
| 25 | Old Man | Neil Young |
| 26 | Hey Hey, My My | Neil Young |
| 27 | Home for a Rest | Spirit of the West |
| 28 | Carrie | Joni Mitchell |
| 29 | If I Had a Million Dollars | Bare Naked Ladies |
| 30 | What a Good Boy | Bare Naked Ladies |
| 31 | Tokyo | Bruce Cockburn |
| 32 | Universal Soldier | Buffy Ste. Marie |
| 33 | Tell Me Why | Neil Young |
| 34 | Raised on Robbery | Joni Mitchell |
| 35 | 1234 | Leslie Feist |
| 36 | Take This Longing | Leonard Cohen |
| 37 | Which Way You Goin' Billy | Poppy Family |
| 40 | Sh-Boom [1955] | the Crew Cuts |
| 41 | Superman's Song | Crash Test Dummies |
| 42 | Woodstock | Joni Mitchell |
| 43 | So Long Marianne | Leonard Cohen |
| 44 | For Free | Joni Mitchell |
| 45 | A Man Needs a Maid | Neil Young |
| 46 | Heart Like a Wheel | Kate and Anna McGarrigle |
| 47 | Scared | Tragically Hip |
| 48 | Black Day in July | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 49 | Come Calling | Cowboy Junkies |
| 50 | Come all Ye Fair and Precious Ladies | Rankin Family |
Absolutely positively never ever going to make my list: K. D. Lang's awful, overwrought delivery of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", the pinnacle of self-serving, claustrophobic, look-at-me-sing-oh-god-I'm-so-humble-I-can't- believe-it-narcissism. Her rendition robs the lyrics of every ounce of meaning and context and it's a performance calibrated for people with a shallow understanding of "she tied you to her kitchen chair/she broke your thrown and she cut your hair", a vague sense of titillation, and a conviction that the louder, more ostentatious voice, the deeper the meaning. And that goes double for Rufus Wainwright's whiney, weasily performance. And shame on "Shrek" for trivilizing the whole thing.
Check John Cale's version for a corrective.