Grand Coulee Dam-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Grand Coulee Dam] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Pastures of Plenty: Best of Woody Guthrie] [offset:0] [00:00.28]Grand Coulee Dam - Woody Guthrie [00:03.50]Well the world has seven wonders [00:05.83]The travelers always tell [00:07.40] [00:08.33]Some gardens and some towers [00:10.25]I guess you know them well [00:12.05] [00:13.15]But the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land [00:17.38]It's that King Columbia River [00:19.40]And the big Grand Coulee Dam [00:21.66] [00:24.64]She heads up the Canadian Rockies [00:26.68]Where the rippling waters glide [00:28.75]Comes a-rumbling down the canyon [00:31.07]To meet that salty tide [00:32.92] [00:33.91]Of the wide Pacific Ocean [00:35.72]Where the sun sets in the west [00:37.82]And the big Grand Coulee country [00:40.05]In the land I love the best [00:41.72] [00:45.26]In the misty crystal glitter of [00:47.42]That wild and windward spray [00:49.32]Men have fought the pounding waters [00:51.48]And met a watery grave [00:53.49] [00:55.48]She tore their boats to splinters [00:57.18]But she gave men dreams to dream [00:59.88]Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross [01:01.82]That wild and wasted stream [01:03.46] [01:06.77]Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 [01:10.75]For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me [01:14.41] [01:15.95]He said, "Roll along Columbia [01:17.81]You can ramble to the sea [01:20.18]But river while you're ramblin' [01:21.86]You can do some work for me [01:23.96] [01:27.01]Now in Washington and Oregon [01:28.96]You hear the factories hum [01:31.03]Making chrome and making manganese [01:33.18]And light aluminum [01:34.38] [01:37.00]And there roars a mighty furnace now [01:39.29]To fight for Uncle Sam [01:41.05] [01:43.14]Spawned upon the King Columbia [01:44.89]By the big Grand Coulee Dam [01:47.07] [01:49.32]In the misty crystal glitter of [01:51.20]That wild and windward spray [01:53.39]Men have fought the pounding waters [01:55.19]And met a watery grave [01:56.98] [01:58.12]She tore their boats to splinters [02:00.24]But she gave men dreams to dream [02:02.37]Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild [02:05.06]And wasted stream [02:05.85]