Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Grand Coolie Dam, artist - Woody Guthrie. Album song The Musical Grandfather & Father Of Bob Dylan, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 29.06.2008
Record label: Avid Entertainment
Song language: English
Grand Coolie Dam |
Well the world has seven wonders, the travelers always tell: |
Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well. |
But the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam’s fair land. |
It’s that King Columbia River and the big Grand Coulee Dam. |
She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide, |
Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that salty tide |
Of the wide Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the west, |
And the big Grand Coulee country in the land I love the best. |
In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray, |
Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave. |
She tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream |
Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream. |
Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 |
For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. |
He said, «Roll along Columbia. |
You can ramble to the sea, |
But river while you’re ramblin' you can do some work for me.» |
Now in Washington and Oregon you hear the factories hum, |
Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum. |
And there roars a mighty furnace now to fight for Uncle Sam, |
Spawned upon the King Columbia by the big Grand Coulee Dam. |