[00:00.78]Grand Coulee Dam - Woody Guthrie
[00:04.20]Well,the world has seven wonders that the travelers always tell,
[00:08.64]Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well,
[00:13.73]But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair lang,
[00:17.81]It's the big Columbia River and the big Grand Coulee Dam.
[00:24.79]She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide,
[00:28.97]Comes a-roaring down the canyon to meet the salty tide,
[00:34.10]Of the wide Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the West,
[00:38.12]And the big Grand Coulee country in the land I love the best.
[00:45.49]In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and wind ward spray,
[00:49.40]Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave,
[00:55.57]Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream
[00:59.56]Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream.
[01:06.73]Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of 'thrity-three,
[01:10.81]For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me,
[01:15.74]He said, "Roll along, Columbia, you can ramble to the sea,
[01:19.73]But river, while you're rambling, you can do some work for me."
[01:26.62]Now in Washington and Oregon you can hear the factories hum,
[01:30.79]Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum,
[01:36.67]And there roars the flying fortress now to fight for Uncle Sam,
[01:42.66]Spawned upon the King Columbia by the big Grand Coulee Dam.
[01:48.87]She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling watersglide,
[01:52.73]I fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave,
[01:57.70]When she tore their boats to dplinters and she gave men dreams todream,
[02:01.76]On the day the Coulee dam was crossed by the wild and wastedstream.