The Grand Coolie Dam - 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