Grand Coulee Dam
Woody Guthrie
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Well, the world has seven wonders that the travelers always tell,
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Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well,
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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.
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She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide,
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Comes a-roaring down the canyon to meet the salty tide,
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Of the wide Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the West
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And the big Grand Coulee country in the land I love the best.
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In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and wind ward spray,
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Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave,
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Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream
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Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream.
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Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of 'thirty-three,
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For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me,
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He said, "Roll along, Columbia, you can ramble to the sea,
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But river, while you're rambling, you can do some work for me."
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Now in Washington and Oregon you can hear the factories hum,
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Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum,
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And there roars the flying fortress now to fight for Uncle Sam,
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Spawned upon the King Columbia by the big Grand Coulee Dam.
