Big Grand Coolee Dam

by Woody Guthrie

　　 She winds down her granite canyon and she bends across the lea Like a silver running stallion down her seaway to the sea Cast your eyes upon the greatest thing yet built by human hands On that king Columbia River it's that big Grand Coolee Dam. In that misty crystal glitter of her wild and windward spray We carved a mighty history of the sacrifices made She ripped our boats to splinters but she gave us dreams dream Of the day the Collee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream. We all took up this challenge in the year of thirty-three For the farmer and factory and all of you and me We said, roll along Columbia, you can ramble to the sea But river while you're rambling you can do a little work for we! Now in Washington and Oregon you hear the factories hum Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum And you see a flying fortress wing her way for freedom land Spawned up on that king Columbia by that big Grand Coolee Dam. ____ For more copies of this song book: Woody Guthrie 3380 Mermaid Avenue Brooklyn, 24, New York