Grand Coulee Dam
1. Now, the world holds seven wonders as the travellers always tell.
some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well.
But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land,
it’s the big Columbia river and the big Grand Coulee Dam.
2. She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide,
comes a-roaring down the canyon for to meet that salty tide
of the great Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the west,
in the big Grand Coulee country in the land I love the best.
3. In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray,
men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave.
While she tore their boats to splinters, she gave men dreams to dream,
of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and restless stream.
4. Now, 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 roll down to the sea
but river, while you're rambling you can do some work for me !
5. In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray,
men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave.
While she tore their boats to splinters, she gave men dreams to dream,
of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and restless stream.
6. Now from Washington and Oregon you can hear the factories hum,
making chrome and making manganese and white aluminium.
Now roars the Flying Fortress for to fight for Uncle Sam,
along the roaring King Columbia by the big Grand Coulee dam.
7. In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray,
men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave.
While she tore their boats to splinters, she gave men dreams to dream,
of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and restless stream.
8. Now, the world holds seven wonders as the travellers always tell.
some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well.
But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land,
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it’s the big Columbia river - - and the big Grand Coulee Dam.