Well, the world has seven wonders,
the travelers always tell
Some gardens and some towers,
I guess you know them well
But the greatest wonder is in Uncle
It's that King Columbia River and
She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the
Comes a- rumbling down the canyon
Of the wide Pacific Ocean
where the sun sets in the west
And the big Grand Coulee country
in the land I love the be st
In the misty crystal glitter of that
Men have fought the pounding waters
Well, 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
Uncle Sam took up the challenge
in the year of Thirty three
For the farmer and the factory
He said, "Roll along Columbia.
You can ramble to the sea
But river while you're ramblin'
you can do some work for me"
Now in Washington and Oregon
you hear the factories hum
Making chrome and making manganese
And there roars a mighty furnace
now to fight for Uncle Sam
Spawned upon the King Columbia
by the big Grand Coulee Dam
In the misty crystal glitter of that
Men have fought the pounding waters
Well, she tore their boats to splinters
but she gave men dreams to dream
Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that
