Spell of the Yukon-Jim Reeves

[ti:Spell of the Yukon] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:Journey Through Country - Jim Reeves] [by:] [offset:-2999] [00:-2.-99]Spell of the Yukon - Jim Reeves [00:07.74]I wanted the gold and I sought it [00:10.14]I scrabbled and mucked like a slave [00:12.48] [00:13.92]Was it famine or scurvy I fought it [00:16.77] [00:17.96]I hurled my youth into a grave [00:19.77] [00:20.65]I wanted the gold and I got it [00:24.00] [00:25.02]Came out with a fortune last fall [00:26.59] [00:28.00]Yet somehow life's not what I thought it [00:30.36] [00:32.07]And somehow the gold isn't all [00:33.91] [00:36.44]No there's the land have you seen it [00:39.30] [00:40.41]The it's cursedest land that I know [00:42.15] [00:43.92]From the big dizzy mountains that screen it [00:46.26]To the deep deathlike valleys below [00:48.56] [00:50.88]Some say god was tired when he made it [00:53.44] [00:54.75]Some say it's a fine land to shun [00:56.89] [00:58.33]Maybe but there's some as would trade it [01:01.51]Land for no on earth and I'm one [01:05.18] [01:06.61]You come to get rich damned good reason [01:10.11] [01:10.70]You feel like an exile at first [01:12.25] [01:13.07]You hate it like hell for a season [01:15.08] [01:15.99]And then you are worse than the worst [01:18.32] [01:19.20]It grips you like some kinds of sinning [01:21.16] [01:21.69]It twists you from foe to a friend [01:24.09] [01:25.27]It seems it's been since the beginning [01:27.04] [01:28.42]It seems it will be to the end [01:30.52] [01:32.42]I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow [01:34.38]That's plumb-full of hush to the brim [01:37.00] [01:38.29]I've watched the big husky sun wallow [01:40.60]In crimson and gold and grow dim [01:43.40] [01:44.58]Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming [01:46.92] [01:47.82]And the stars tumbled out neck and crop [01:50.42] [01:51.62]And I've thought that I surely was dreaming [01:54.05]With the peace o' world piled on top [01:57.01] [01:58.86]The summer no sweeter was ever [02:01.41] [02:02.47]The sunshiny woods all a thrill [02:04.29] [02:05.11]The gray ling a leap in the river [02:07.23]The bighorn asleep on the hill [02:09.14] [02:10.47]The strong life that never knows harness [02:13.42] [02:14.39]The wilds where the caribou call [02:16.59] [02:17.36]The freshness the freedom the fairness [02:21.64] [02:22.22]O god how I'm stuck on it all [02:24.69] [02:27.04]The winter the brightness that blinds you [02:29.34]The white land locked tight as a drum [02:31.35] [02:32.17]The cold fear that follows and finds you [02:35.64]The silence that bludgeons you dumb [02:37.98] [02:39.16]The snows that are older than history [02:41.64]The woods where the weird shadows slant [02:44.31] [02:44.90]The stillness the moonlight the mystery [02:49.97] [02:51.41]I've bade 'em goodbye but I can't [02:54.74] [02:55.76]There's a land where the mountains are nameless [02:58.06] [02:58.74]And the rivers all run god knows where [03:01.68] [03:02.56]There are lives that are erring and aimless [03:04.71] [03:05.27]And deaths that just hang by a hair [03:07.94] [03:09.31]There are hardships that nobody reckons [03:11.42] [03:12.34]There are valleys unpeopled and still [03:15.00] [03:16.33]There's a land oh it beckons and beckons [03:20.32] [03:21.44]And I want to go back and I will [03:23.72] [03:25.46]They're making my money diminish [03:27.15]I'm sick of the taste of champagne [03:29.77]Thank god when I'm skinned to a finish [03:31.78] [03:32.64]I'll pike to the Yukon again [03:34.27] [03:34.86]I'll fight and you bet it's no sham-fight [03:37.04]It's hell but I've been there before [03:40.27] [03:40.91]And it's better than this by a great site [03:43.04] [03:44.08]So me for the Yukon once more [03:46.17] [03:47.46]There's gold and it's haunting and haunting [03:50.62] [03:51.75]It's luring me on as of old [03:54.18]Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting [03:55.93]So much as just finding the gold [03:58.11] [03:58.70]It's the great big broad land 'way up yonder [04:01.78]It's the forests where silence has lease [04:04.13] [04:04.64]It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder [04:06.61] [04:07.85]It's the stillness that fills me with peace [04:10.88]