Lonnie Donegan – Grand Coulee Dam

Lonnie Donegan – Grand Coulee Dam Lyrics

Artist: Lonnie Donegan
Song: Grand Coulee Dam

Now the world holds seven wonders
That the travellers always tell
Some gardens and some towers,
I guess you know them well

But now the greatest wonder
Is in Uncle Sam’s fair land
It’s the big Columbia River
And the big Grand Coulee Dam

She heads up the Canadian Rockies
Where the rippling waters glide
Comes a-roaring down the canyon
For to meet that salty tide

Of the big Pacific Ocean
Where the sun sinks in the west
In the big Grand Coulee country
In the land I love the best

In the misty crystal glitter
Of the wild and windward spray
Men have fought the pounding waters
And met a watery grave

Why, 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

Now Uncle Sam took up the challenge
In the year of thirty three
For the farmer and the factory
And all of you and me

He said, “Roll along Columbia,
You can roll down to the sea
But river, while you’re rambling
You can do some work for me.”

In the misty crystal glitter
Of the wild and windward spray
Men have fought the pounding waters
And met a watery grave

Why, 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

Now from Washington and Oregon
You can hear the factories hum
Making chrome and making manganese
And white aluminum

Now the roar of the Flying Fortress
For to fight for Uncle Sam
On the howling King Columbia
By the big Grand Coulee Dam

In the misty crystal glitter
Of the wild and windward spray
Men have fought the pounding waters
And met a watery grave

Why, 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

Now the world holds seven wonders
That the travellers always tell
Some gardens and some towers,
Why, I guess you know them well

But now the greatest wonder
Is in Uncle Sam’s fair land
It’s the big Columbia River
And the big Grand Coulee Dam.
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Release Year: 1958