Chords:
{t:Grand Coulee Dam (Donegan)}
{key: G}
{artist: Lonnie Donegan}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HckmcNP19Sk
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Now, the [G] world holds seven wonders as the [C] travellers always tell.
some [D] gardens and some towers, I [D7] guess you know them [G] well.
But now the greatest wonder is in [C] Uncle Sam's fair land,
it’s the [D] big Columbia river and the [D7] big Grand Coulee [G] Dam.
She [G] heads up the Canadian Rockies where the [C] rippling waters glide,
comes a-[D]roaring down the canyon for to [D7] meet that salty [G] tide
of the great Pacific Ocean where the [C] sun sets in the west,
in the [D] big Grand Coulee country in the [D7] land I love the [G] best.
In the [G] misty crystal glitter of that [C] wild and windward spray,
men have [D] fought the pounding waters and [D7] met a watery [G] grave.
While she tore their boats to splinters, she [C] gave men dreams to dream,
of the [D] day the Coulee Dam would cross that [D7] wild and restless [G] stream.
Now, Uncle [G] Sam took up the challenge in the [C] year of thirty three,
for the [D] farmer and the factory and [D7] all of you and [G] me.
He said: roll along, Columbia, you can [C] roll down to the sea
but [D] river, while you're rambling you can [D7] do some work for [G] me !
In the [G] misty crystal glitter of that [C] wild and windward spray,
men have [D] fought the pounding waters and [D7] met a watery [G] grave.
While she tore their boats to splinters, she [C] gave men dreams to dream,
of the [D] day the Coulee Dam would cross that [D7] wild and restless [G] stream.
Now from [G] Washington and Oregon you can [C] hear the factories hum,
making [D] chrome and making manganese and [D7] white alumini-[G]um.
Now roars the Flying Fortress for to [C] fight for Uncle Sam,
along the [D] roaring King Columbia by the [D7] big Grand Coulee [G] dam.
In the [G] misty crystal glitter of that [C] wild and windward spray,
men have [D] fought the pounding waters and [D7] met a watery [G] grave.
While she tore their boats to splinters, she [C] gave men dreams to dream,
of the [D] day the Coulee Dam would cross that [D7] wild and restless [G] stream.
Now, the [G] world holds seven wonders as the [C] travellers always tell.
some [D] gardens and some towers, I guess you [D7] know them [G] well.
But now the greatest wonder is in [C] Uncle Sam's fair land,
it’s the [D] big Columbia river and the big Grand Coulee [G] Dam.
