Roll On Columbia

	  		
verse 1 
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Green Douglas firs where the waters cut through. 
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Down her wild mountains and canyons she flew. 
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Canadian Northwest to the ocean so blue, 
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It's Roll on, Columbia, roll On! 

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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Your power is turning our darkness to dawn, 
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So, Roll on, Columbia, roll on 


verse 2 
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Other great rivers add power to you, 
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Yakima, Snake, and the Klickitat, too, 
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Sandy, Willamette, and Hood River, too; 
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Roll on Columbia, roll on! 

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It's there on your banks that you fought many a fight, 
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Sheridan's boys in the block house at night, 
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They saw us in death, but never in flight; 
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on! 

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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Your power is turning our darkness to dawn, 
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So, Roll on, Columbia, roll on
 

verse 3 
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Our loved ones we lost there at Coe's little store, 
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By fireball and rifle, a dozen or more, 
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We won by the Mary and soldiers she bore; 
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Roll on, Columbia, Roll On! 

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Remember the trial when the battle was won, 
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The wild Indian warriors to the tall timber run, 
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We hung every Indian with smoke in his gun; 
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Roll on, Columbia, Roll on! 

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Year after year we had tedious trials, 
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Fighting the rapids at Cascades and Dalles. 
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The Injuns rest peaceful on Memaloose Isle; 
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Roll on, Columbia, Roll on! 
 
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Your power is turning our darkness to dawn, 
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So, Roll on, Columbia, roll on
 

verse 4 
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At Bonneville now there are ships in the locks, 
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The waters have risen and drownded the rocks, 
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Ship loads of plenty will steam in the docks, 
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Roll On, Columbia, Roll On! 

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On up the river at Grand Coulee Dam, 
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Mightiest thing ever built by a man, 
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We run the great factories for old Uncle Sam, 
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It's roll on, Colombia, Roll on. 

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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. 
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Your power is turning our darkness to dawn, 
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So, Roll on, Columbia, roll on