
Date of issue: 10.11.2016
Record label: Moondog
Song language: English
Aska Me |
Aska me about Alaska, if you care a tinker’s damn |
What I have to say about the Russian Bear and Uncle Sam |
Vitus Bering rediscovered Streights that somehow Bear his name |
After they had been discovered many times before he came |
Alexander Baranov, Administra (i)tor to the Czar |
Sat in Sitka with his books and paintings, eating caviar |
Then, in 1867, Seward bought it for a song; |
Sing a song of seven million, and a fifth of something Strong |
Playing for itself in gold, some twenty times the price he payed |
«Seward's Folly» was, by golly, where a killing could be made |
1912, a territory, 1952, a state |
All the Tlingits were so sorry, Uncle Sam had come so late |
When the exploitation’s over and the last exploiter’s gone |
Then whatever left of life and limb can try to carry on |
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