Grand Coulee Dam-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Grand Coulee Dam] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Grand Coulee Dam - Woody Guthrie [00:03.79]Well the world has seven wonders [00:05.27] [00:05.81]The travelers always tell [00:07.14] [00:08.05]Some gardens and some towers [00:09.95]I guess you know them well [00:11.62] [00:13.28]But the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land [00:16.59] [00:17.20]It's that King Columbia River [00:19.19]And the big Grand Coulee Dam [00:20.92] [00:24.35]She heads up the Canadian Rockies [00:26.38]Where the rippling waters glide [00:27.95] [00:28.50]Comes a-rumbling down the canyon [00:30.63]To meet that salty tide [00:32.14] [00:33.77]Of the wide Pacific Ocean [00:35.78]Where the sun sets in the west [00:37.72]And the big Grand Coulee country [00:39.27] [00:39.97]In the land I love the best [00:41.33] [00:44.91]In the misty crystal glitter of [00:47.03]That wild and windward spray [00:49.02]Men have fought the pounding waters [00:51.01]And met a watery grave [00:52.58] [00:55.05]She tore their boats to splinters [00:57.15]But she gave men dreams to dream [00:59.12]Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross [01:01.49]That wild and wasted stream [01:02.84] [01:06.23]Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 [01:09.59] [01:10.15]For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me [01:13.72] [01:15.24]He said "Roll along Columbia [01:17.07]You can ramble to the sea [01:18.57] [01:19.29]But river while you're ramblin' [01:21.08]You can do some work for me [01:22.81] [01:26.20]Now in Washington and Oregon [01:28.18]You hear the factories hum [01:30.13]Making chrome and making manganese [01:32.02]And light aluminum [01:33.37] [01:36.18]And there roars a mighty furnace now [01:38.46]To fight for Uncle Sam [01:39.69] [01:41.98]Spawned upon the King Columbia [01:44.10]By the big Grand Coulee Dam [01:45.89] [01:48.35]In the misty crystal glitter of [01:50.21]That wild and windward spray [01:51.62] [01:52.44]Men have fought the pounding waters [01:54.42]And met a watery grave [01:55.81] [01:57.10]She tore their boats to splinters [01:59.03]But she gave men dreams to dream [02:01.17]Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild [02:04.00]And wasted stream