The Grand Coulee Dam Lyrics - Woody At 100: Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection - Woody Guthrie

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 

Well, 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 

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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 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 

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In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray 

Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave 

Well, 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