Spell of the Yukon-Jim Reeves

[ti:Spell of the Yukon] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:Journey Through Country - Jim Reeves] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Spell of the Yukon - Jim Reeves [00:10.51]I wanted the gold and I sought it [00:12.91]I scrabbled and mucked like a slave [00:15.25] [00:16.69]Was it famine or scurvy I fought it [00:19.54] [00:20.73]I hurled my youth into a grave [00:22.54] [00:23.42]I wanted the gold and I got it [00:26.77] [00:27.79]Came out with a fortune last fall [00:29.36] [00:30.77]Yet somehow life's not what I thought it [00:33.13] [00:34.84]And somehow the gold isn't all [00:36.68] [00:39.21]No there's the land have you seen it [00:42.07] [00:43.18]The it's cursedest land that I know [00:44.92] [00:46.69]From the big dizzy mountains that screen it [00:49.03]To the deep deathlike valleys below [00:51.33] [00:53.65]Some say god was tired when he made it [00:56.21] [00:57.52]Some say it's a fine land to shun [00:59.66] [01:01.10]Maybe but there's some as would trade it [01:04.28]Land for no on earth and I'm one [01:07.95] [01:09.38]You come to get rich damned good reason [01:12.88] [01:13.47]You feel like an exile at first [01:15.02] [01:15.84]You hate it like hell for a season [01:17.85] [01:18.76]And then you are worse than the worst [01:21.09] [01:21.97]It grips you like some kinds of sinning [01:23.93] [01:24.46]It twists you from foe to a friend [01:26.86] [01:28.04]It seems it's been since the beginning [01:29.81] [01:31.19]It seems it will be to the end [01:33.29] [01:35.19]I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow [01:37.15]That's plumb-full of hush to the brim [01:39.76] [01:41.05]I've watched the big husky sun wallow [01:43.37]In crimson and gold and grow dim [01:46.17] [01:47.35]Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming [01:49.69] [01:50.59]And the stars tumbled out neck and crop [01:53.19] [01:54.39]And I've thought that I surely was dreaming [01:56.82]With the peace o' world piled on top [01:59.78] [02:01.63]The summer no sweeter was ever [02:04.18] [02:05.24]The sunshiny woods all a thrill [02:07.06] [02:07.88]The gray ling a leap in the river [02:10.00]The bighorn asleep on the hill [02:11.91] [02:13.24]The strong life that never knows harness [02:16.19] [02:17.16]The wilds where the caribou call [02:19.36] [02:20.13]The freshness the freedom the fairness [02:24.41] [02:24.99]O god how I'm stuck on it all [02:27.46] [02:29.81]The winter the brightness that blinds you [02:32.11]The white land locked tight as a drum [02:34.12] [02:34.94]The cold fear that follows and finds you [02:38.41]The silence that bludgeons you dumb [02:40.75] [02:41.93]The snows that are older than history [02:44.41]The woods where the weird shadows slant [02:47.08] [02:47.67]The stillness the moonlight the mystery [02:52.74] [02:54.18]I've bade 'em goodbye but I can't [02:57.51] [02:58.53]There's a land where the mountains are nameless [03:00.83] [03:01.51]And the rivers all run god knows where [03:04.45] [03:05.33]There are lives that are erring and aimless [03:07.48] [03:08.04]And deaths that just hang by a hair [03:10.71] [03:12.08]There are hardships that nobody reckons [03:14.19] [03:15.11]There are valleys unpeopled and still [03:17.77] [03:19.10]There's a land oh it beckons and beckons [03:23.09] [03:24.21]And I want to go back and I will [03:26.49] [03:28.23]They're making my money diminish [03:29.92]I'm sick of the taste of champagne [03:32.54]Thank god when I'm skinned to a finish [03:34.55] [03:35.41]I'll pike to the Yukon again [03:37.04] [03:37.63]I'll fight and you bet it's no sham-fight [03:39.81]It's hell but I've been there before [03:43.04] [03:43.68]And it's better than this by a great site [03:45.81] [03:46.85]So me for the Yukon once more [03:48.94] [03:50.23]There's gold and it's haunting and haunting [03:53.39] [03:54.52]It's luring me on as of old [03:56.95]Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting [03:58.70]So much as just finding the gold [04:00.88] [04:01.47]It's the great big broad land 'way up yonder [04:04.55]It's the forests where silence has lease [04:06.90] [04:07.41]It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder [04:09.38] [04:10.61]It's the stillness that fills me with peace