Woody Guthrie - Roll, Columbia, Roll lyrics

There's a great and peaceful river in a land that's fair to see Where the Douglas-fir tree whispers to the snow-capped mountain breeze Cliffs of solid granite and the valley's always green This is just as close to heaven as my traveling feet have been CHORUS: Roll, Columbia, won't you roll, roll, roll Roll, Columbia, won't you roll, roll, roll Stand upon her timbered mountain, look across her silver strand See the crops and orchards springing to the touch of nature's hand And it's further up the river where your eye will meet the skies Where you'll see the steel and concrete of the big Grand Coulee rise CHORUS There at Priest and Cascade Rapids men have labored day and night Matched their strength against the river in its wild and reckless flight Boats and rafts were beat to splinters but it left men dreams to dream Of that day when they would conquer the wild and wasted stream CHORUS Uncle Sam took the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmers and the workers and for all humanity Now river, you can ramble where the sun sets in the sea But while you're rambling, river, you can do some work for me CHORUS Now there's full three million horses charges with Coulee' 'lectric power Day and night they'll run the factory and they never will get tired Well, a coal mine gets dug out and an oil well it runs dry But Uncle Sam will find his power where the river meets the sky CHORUS