Song of the Coulee Dam
Words and music Woody Guthrie
Released on Columbia River Collection (1988)

Capo fret 3

Intro

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Way up in that north west land of the sky.
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Columbia river's head waters rise.
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Mountains and mountains covered with snow.
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I'll follow that river Wherever she goes.

She 92 miles north-West of Spokane,
There you see our Grand Coulee dam.
Grand Coulee dam boys, Grand Coulee dam,
The biggest thing built by the hands of a man.

Winter and Summer,Springtime and fall,
Makes her way down her high canyon walls.
Bright ripplin' waters sparkling so bright,
Seldom you see such a beautiful sight.

Power that sings boys and turbines that whine,
Waters back up to the Canadian line.
400 miles of water will stand.
Rich farms will come from the hot desert sand.

Flood waters lift up the canyon so steep
Making a lake a 100 foot deep.
Waters will roll to the north and the south
Never again be afraid of the drought

Waters will flow with the greatest of ease,
A 100 miles west boys and a 100 miles east.
Factories that work for all of this land
Run on that power from the Grand Coulee Dam.

Ships on the ocean ships in the sky,
Inch after inch her waters will rise.
Pilons on top your mountains and hills,
Running your shops, your factories and mills.

Niagara Falls sends mist to the sky,
But the Grand Coulee Dam boys is just twice as high.
She's 43 hund'erd feet 'cross the top,
Five hundred and fifty down to her rocks.

I'll settle this land boys and I'll work like a man,
I'll water my crops from that Grand Coulee Dam.
Grand Coulee dam boys, Grand Coulee dam,
I wish we had a lot more Grand Coulee dams.