American Child Lyrics - Singles - John Denver

This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the Autograph album, and has also been released on the Earth Songs, The Very Best of John Denver (Single CD) and The John Denver Collection - Calypso albums. 

Goin' up to Alaska 

Up to the land of the midnight sun 

Where the whale and the polar bear run 

O'er the icy blue sea 

Goin' up to Alaska 

Up to the north and the pioneer life 

Where courage and strength still survive 

And a man can be free 

American Child, does the call of the wild 

Ever sing through the mist of your dreams 

Does it fly with the wind when you waken again 

When it's gone do you know what it means 

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Can you picture the time when a man had to find 

His own way through the cold 

To come back again to all that you've been 

Can't you see that it's time to come home 

To the flowers and seas and the rivers and the trees 

And the earth who's the mother of all 

A promise once made - will it shine, will it fade 

Will we rise with the vision or fall 

Goin' up to Alaska 

Up to the land of the midnight sun 

Where the whale and the polar bear run 

O'er the icy blue sea 

Goin' up to Alaska 

Up to the north and the pioneer life 

Where courage and strength still survive 

And a man can be free 

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Men can be free 

Goin' up to Alaska 

Goin' up to Alaska 

Goin' up to Alaska 

Words and music by John Denver and Joe Henry