Grand Coulee Dam - 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

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

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33

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