Roll Columbia, Roll - Woody Guthrie

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

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

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

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

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