Grand Coolee Dam - Lonnie Donegan

Well, the world owns seven wonders as 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

That King Columbia river and the great Grand Coulee Dam

She come up the Canadian Rockies where the crystal waters glide

Comes a-roaring down the canyon to meet that salty tide

From the great Pacific Ocean to where the sun sets in the west

That big Grand Coulee country in that land I love the best

In the misty glitter of that wild and windward spray

Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave

Once she tore men’s boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream

That day that Grand Coulee dam went across that wild and restless stream

Oh, Uncle Sam took up the notion in the year of thirty three

For the factory and the farmer and for all of you and me

He said: roll it on Columbia, you can roll out to the sea

But river, while you’re rolling you can do some work for me

Now from Washington and Oregon you can hear them factories a-hum

Making corn and making manganese and light aluminum

Always a flying fortress to blast for Uncle Sam

That King Columbia river and the great Grand Coulee dam

Well, the world owns seven wonders as 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

That King Columbia river and the great Grand Coulee Dam