Grand Coulee Dam Chords by Woody Guthrie
Tempo:
103.5 bpm
Chords used:
C
G
D
A
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Well, the world has seven wonders [C] that the travelers always tell
[D] Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know [G] them well
But now the greatest wonder [C] is in Uncle Sam's fair [D] land
It's that keen Columbia River and the big grand [G] Coulee Dam
She heads up to Canadian [C] Rockies where the rippling waters glide
[D] Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that [G] salty tide
Of the wide Pacific Ocean [C] where the sun sets in the west
[D] And the big grand Coulee country in the land [G] I love the best
In the misty crystal glitter of [C] that wild and windward spray
Men have [D] fought the pounding waters and met a watery [G] grave
Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she [C] gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream
Uncle Sam took up the challenge in [C] the year of thirty-three
[D] For the farmer and the factory and all of [G] you and me
He said, roll along Columbia, [C] you can ramble to the sea
But [D] river, while you're rambling you can do some work [G] for me
Now in Washington and Oregon [C] you hear the factories hum
Making chrome and making manganese and light [G] aluminum
And there roars a flying fortress now to [C] fight for Uncle Sam
Spawned [D] upon the keen Columbia by the big grand Coulee [G] Dam
In the misty crystal glitter [C] of that wild and windward spray
[D] Men have fought the pounding waters and [G] met a watery grave
Well, she tore their boats to splinters [C] but she gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream
[A] [Bm] [N]
[D] Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know [G] them well
But now the greatest wonder [C] is in Uncle Sam's fair [D] land
It's that keen Columbia River and the big grand [G] Coulee Dam
She heads up to Canadian [C] Rockies where the rippling waters glide
[D] Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that [G] salty tide
Of the wide Pacific Ocean [C] where the sun sets in the west
[D] And the big grand Coulee country in the land [G] I love the best
In the misty crystal glitter of [C] that wild and windward spray
Men have [D] fought the pounding waters and met a watery [G] grave
Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she [C] gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream
Uncle Sam took up the challenge in [C] the year of thirty-three
[D] For the farmer and the factory and all of [G] you and me
He said, roll along Columbia, [C] you can ramble to the sea
But [D] river, while you're rambling you can do some work [G] for me
Now in Washington and Oregon [C] you hear the factories hum
Making chrome and making manganese and light [G] aluminum
And there roars a flying fortress now to [C] fight for Uncle Sam
Spawned [D] upon the keen Columbia by the big grand Coulee [G] Dam
In the misty crystal glitter [C] of that wild and windward spray
[D] Men have fought the pounding waters and [G] met a watery grave
Well, she tore their boats to splinters [C] but she gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream
[A] [Bm] [N]
Key:
C
G
D
A
Bm
C
G
D
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Well, the world has seven wonders [C] that the travelers always tell
[D] Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know [G] them well
But now the greatest wonder [C] is in Uncle Sam's fair [D] land
It's that keen Columbia River and the big grand [G] Coulee Dam _
_ _ She heads up to Canadian [C] Rockies where the rippling waters glide
[D] Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that [G] salty tide
_ Of the wide Pacific Ocean [C] where the sun sets in the west
[D] And the big grand Coulee country in the land [G] I love the best
_ _ _ _ In the misty crystal glitter of [C] that wild and windward spray
Men have [D] fought the pounding waters and met a watery [G] grave _
Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she [C] gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream _
_ _ _ Uncle Sam took up the challenge in [C] the year of thirty-three
[D] For the farmer and the factory and all of [G] you and me
He said, roll along Columbia, [C] you can ramble to the sea
But [D] river, while you're rambling you can do some work [G] for me
_ _ _ Now in Washington and Oregon [C] you hear the factories hum
Making chrome and making manganese and light [G] aluminum
_ _ And there roars a flying fortress now to [C] fight for Uncle Sam _
_ Spawned [D] upon the keen Columbia by the big grand Coulee [G] Dam
_ _ In the misty crystal glitter [C] of that wild and windward spray
[D] Men have fought the pounding waters and [G] met a watery grave
Well, she tore their boats to splinters [C] but she gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, the world has seven wonders [C] that the travelers always tell
[D] Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know [G] them well
But now the greatest wonder [C] is in Uncle Sam's fair [D] land
It's that keen Columbia River and the big grand [G] Coulee Dam _
_ _ She heads up to Canadian [C] Rockies where the rippling waters glide
[D] Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that [G] salty tide
_ Of the wide Pacific Ocean [C] where the sun sets in the west
[D] And the big grand Coulee country in the land [G] I love the best
_ _ _ _ In the misty crystal glitter of [C] that wild and windward spray
Men have [D] fought the pounding waters and met a watery [G] grave _
Well, she tore their boats to splinters but she [C] gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream _
_ _ _ Uncle Sam took up the challenge in [C] the year of thirty-three
[D] For the farmer and the factory and all of [G] you and me
He said, roll along Columbia, [C] you can ramble to the sea
But [D] river, while you're rambling you can do some work [G] for me
_ _ _ Now in Washington and Oregon [C] you hear the factories hum
Making chrome and making manganese and light [G] aluminum
_ _ And there roars a flying fortress now to [C] fight for Uncle Sam _
_ Spawned [D] upon the keen Columbia by the big grand Coulee [G] Dam
_ _ In the misty crystal glitter [C] of that wild and windward spray
[D] Men have fought the pounding waters and [G] met a watery grave
Well, she tore their boats to splinters [C] but she gave men dreams to dream
[D] Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and [G] wasted stream
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
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