Now the world has seven wonders,
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 King Columbia River
and the big Grand Coulee Dam
Which heads off the Canadian Rockies
where the rippling waters glide
Come the rambling 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 best
In the misty crystal glitter
of that wild and windward spray
Where I fought the pounding waters
She told me her voice is splintered
but she gave men dreams to dream
Of the day the Coulee Dam
would cross that wild and windy stream
Now 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 rambling,
you can do some work for me
Now in Washington and Oregon
you can hear the factories hum
Making comb and making manganese
And there roams our mighty furnace
now to fight for Uncle Sam
It's the big Columbia River
by the big Grand Coulee Dam
In the misty crystal glitter
of that wild windward spray
Men have fought the pounding waters
She tore their boats to splinters
but she gave men dreams to dream
Of the day the Coulee Dam
would cross that wild and windy stream
She heads up the Canadian Rockies
where the rippling waters glide
Comes a -rambling down the canyon
Off the wide Pacific Ocean
where the sun sets in the west
And a big Grand Coulee country
In the land I love the best
Now the world has seven wonders
The travellers all will sell
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 King Columbia River
And the big Grand Coulee dam
It's the big Columbia River
