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Version 1 Version 2Grand Coulee Dam Woody Guthrie standard tuning- capo anywhere G C Well, the world has seven wonders that the travelers always tell, G D Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well, G C But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land D G It's the big Columbia River and the big Grand Coulee Dam. G C She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide, G D Comes a-roaring down the canyon to meet the salty tide, G C Of the wide Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the West D G And the big Grand Coulee country in the land I love the best. G C In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and wind ward spray, G D Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave, G C Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream D G Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream. G C Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of 'thirty-three, G D For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me, G C He said, "Roll along, Columbia, you can ramble to the sea, D G But river, while you're rambling, you can do some work for me." G C Now in Washington and Oregon you can hear the factories hum, G D Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum, G C And there roars the flying fortress now to fight for Uncle Sam, D G Spawned upon the King Columbia by the big Grand Coulee Dam.