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Thread #121955   Message #2708608
Posted By: Pierre Le Chapeau
25-Aug-09 - 08:34 PM
Thread Name: Knockholt Forever Autumn
Subject: RE: Knockholt Forever Autumn
Fisheye.
here are the lyrics has I promised for the Woody Guthrie Song you want to do at Knockholt. Are you sure about Lonnie Donagan
doing a version of this song? if so check the lyrics they may differ?

I will do in the key of C.Guitar.
and you will acompany on Banjo in key of G. BLOODY PARLAVA.
I cant see a song like this being played and sung slowly. It has a tempo of about 120. Re our talk the other night at folkmob you were right I was thinking of another song that is very similar. I beg your Pardon.
                The Grand Coulee Dam.
The world has seven wonders,the travelers always tell.
Some garden and some towers I guess you know them well.
But the greatest wonder is in uncle sams fair land.
Its that King Columbia river and the big Grand Coulee Dam.

She heads up the Canadian rockies where the rippling waters glide.
Come,s a rumbling down the canyon to meet the salty tide.
Of the wide Pacific ocean where the sunm sets in the west
and the big grand Coulee country is the land I love the best.

In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray
men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave.
She tore the bvoats to spintersbut 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 ,33
For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me.
He said "Roll along Columbia", You can rambke to the sea,
But river while your rambling you can do some work for me.

Now in Washington and Oregen you can hear the factories hum,
making chrome and making magnesium and light aluminium.
And there roars a mighty furnace now to fight for Uncle Sam.
Spawned upon the King Columbia by the Big Grand Coulee Dam.


Regards Pierre.