Grand Coulee Dam

Album: This Land Is Your Land: Asch Recordings Volume 1 (1941)
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  • Well, the world has seven wonders, the travelers always tell
    Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well
    But the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land
    It's that King Columbia River and the big Grand Coulee Dam

    She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide
    Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that salty tide
    Of the wide Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the west
    And the big Grand Coulee country in the land I love the best

    In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray
    Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave
    Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream
    Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream

    Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of Thirty three
    For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me
    He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea
    But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me"

    Now in Washington and Oregon you hear the factories hum
    Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum
    And there roars a mighty furnace now to fight for Uncle Sam
    Spawned upon the King Columbia by the big Grand Coulee Dam

    In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray
    Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave
    Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream
    Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream Writer/s: Lonnie Donegan, Woody Guthrie
    Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
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