[00:03.07]Well the world has seven wonders, the travelers always tell:
[00:07.27]Some gardens and some towers,
[00:09.34]I guess you know them well.
[00:12.68]But the greatest wonder is in
[00:14.75]Uncle Sam's fair land
[00:16.62]It's that King Columbia River and the big Grand Coulee Dam.
[00:23.66]She heads up the
[00:24.62]Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide,
[00:27.75]Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that salty tide
[00:32.96]Of the wide
[00:33.57]Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the west,
[00:36.85]And the big
[00:37.46]Grand Coulee country in the land
[00:39.53]I love the best.
[00:44.09]In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray,
[00:47.98]Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave.
[00:54.41]She tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream
[00:58.20]Of the day the
[00:59.21]Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream.
[01:05.38]Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33
[01:09.38]For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me.
[01:14.38]He said, "
[01:14.79]Roll along
[01:15.69]Columbia.
[01:16.36]You can ramble to the sea,
[01:18.12]But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."
[01:25.26]Now in Washington and
[01:26.42]Oregon you hear the factories hum,
[01:29.00]Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum.
[01:35.18]And there roars a mighty furnace now to fight for
[01:38.11]Uncle Sam,
[01:41.18]Spawned upon the
[01:42.40]King Columbia by the big
[01:43.52]Grand Coulee Dam.
[01:47.81]In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray,
[01:51.51]Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave.
[01:56.41]She tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream
[02:00.26]Of the day the
[02:01.22]Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream.