(Far Away Feeling) The Spell Of The Yukon-Jim Reeves

[ti:(Far Away Feeling) The Spell O] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:Talkin' To Your Hear/A Touch o] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00](Far Away Feeling) The Spell Of The Yukon - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯) [00:10.24]I wanted the gold and I sought it [00:12.49]I scrabbled and mucked like a slave [00:14.52] [00:16.34]Was it famine or scurvy I fought it [00:18.00] [00:20.30]I hurled my youth into a grave [00:22.91]I wanted the gold and I got it [00:26.55] [00:27.24]Came out with a fortune last fall [00:28.73] [00:30.30]Yet somehow life's not what I thought it [00:32.36] [00:34.40]And somehow the gold isn't all [00:36.08] [00:38.64]No there's the land have you seen it [00:42.58]It's the cursedest land that I know [00:44.23] [00:46.10]From the big dizzy mountains that screen it [00:47.37] [00:48.25]To the deep deathlike valleys below [00:50.31] [00:53.00]Some say God was tired when He made it [00:57.00]Some say it's a fine land to shun [00:58.81] [01:00.44]Maybe but there's some as would trade it [01:03.00] [01:03.78]For no land on earth and I'm one [01:06.00] [01:08.57]You come to get rich damned good reason [01:12.75]You feel like an exile at first [01:14.31] [01:15.06]You hate it like hell for a season [01:16.94] [01:18.13]And then you are worse than the worst [01:21.19]It grips you like some kinds of sinning [01:23.63]It twists you from foe to a friend [01:25.44] [01:27.25]It seems it's been since the beginning [01:30.38]It seems it will be to the end [01:32.00] [01:34.32]I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow [01:36.50]That's plumb-full of hush to the brim [01:38.75] [01:40.25]I've watched the big husky sun wallow [01:41.00] [01:42.86]In crimson and gold and grow dim [01:44.92] [01:46.69]Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming [01:48.51] [01:49.63]And the stars tumbled out neck and crop [01:53.44]And I've thought that I surely was dreaming [01:54.00] [01:55.87]With the peace o' the world piled on top [01:58.52] [02:00.64]The summer no sweeter was ever [02:04.33]The sunshiny woods all a thrill [02:06.89]The gray ling a leap in the river [02:09.01]The bighorn asleep on the hill [02:12.14]The strong life that never knows harness [02:14.79] [02:16.04]The wilds where the caribou call [02:18.97]The freshness the freedom the fairness [02:23.90]O God how I'm stuck on it all [02:26.09] [02:28.59]The winter the brightness that blinds you [02:31.03]The white land locked tight as a drum [02:33.71]The cold fear that follows and finds you [02:37.15]The silence that bludgeons you dumb [02:40.84]The snows that are older than history [02:43.09]The woods where the weird shadows slant [02:45.16] [02:46.41]The stillness the moonlight the mystery [02:50.53] [02:52.97]I've bade 'em goodbye but I can't [02:55.39] [02:57.14]There's a land where the mountains are nameless [03:00.08]And the rivers all run God knows where [03:03.89]There are lives that are erring and aimless [03:06.64]And deaths that just hang by a hair [03:10.53]There are hardships that nobody reckons [03:13.59]There are valleys unpeopled and still [03:17.03]There's a land oh it beckons and beckons [03:20.59] [03:22.56]And I want to go back and I will [03:26.69]They're making my money diminish [03:28.38]I'm sick of the taste of champagne [03:30.88]Thank God when I'm skinned to a finish [03:33.75]I'll pike to the Yukon again [03:35.69]I'll fight and you bet it's no sham-fight [03:38.26]It's hell but I've been there before [03:42.10]And it's better than this by a great site [03:45.16]So me for the Yukon once more [03:48.53]There's gold and it's haunting and haunting [03:51.36] [03:52.99]It's luring me on as of old [03:55.17]Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting [03:56.99]So much as just finding the gold [03:59.67]It's the great big broad land 'way up yonder [04:02.68]It's the forests where silence has lease [04:05.55]It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder [04:08.74]It's the stillness that fills me with peace