Grand Coulee Dam Lyrics - Singles - Lonnie Donegan

Now the world holds seven wonders 

That the travellers always tell 

Some gardens and some towers, 

I guess you know them well 

But now the greatest wonder 

Is in Uncle Sam's fair land 

It's the big Columbia River 

And the big Grand Coulee Dam 

She heads up the Canadian Rockies 

Where the rippling waters glide 

Comes a-roaring down the canyon 

For to meet that salty tide 

Of the big Pacific Ocean 

Where the sun sinks in the west 

In the big Grand Coulee country 

In the land I love the best 

In the misty crystal glitter 

Of the wild and windward spray 

Men have fought the pounding waters 

And met a watery grave 

Why, 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 

Now 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 roll down to the sea 

But river, while you're rambling 

You can do some work for me." 

In the misty crystal glitter 

Of the wild and windward spray 

Men have fought the pounding waters 

And met a watery grave 

Why, 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 

Now from Washington and Oregon 

You can hear the factories hum 

Making chrome and making manganese 

And white aluminum 

Now the roar of the Flying Fortress 

For to fight for Uncle Sam 

On the howling King Columbia 

By the big Grand Coulee Dam 

In the misty crystal glitter 

Of the wild and windward spray 

Men have fought the pounding waters 

And met a watery grave 

Why, 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 

Now the world holds seven wonders 

That the travellers always tell 

Some gardens and some towers, 

Why, I guess you know them well 

But now the greatest wonder 

Is in Uncle Sam's fair land 

It's the big Columbia River 

And the big Grand Coulee Dam.