White Pass Railroad
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Skookum Jim found gold in Bonanza Creek in eighteen ninety six
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Within a year the Seattle Post screamed Gold Gold Gold get rich
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A hundred thousand miners headed north to Alaska to brave the ice and cold
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But more got paid by the White Pass line than those who ever found gold
[Verse 2]
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In 97 the only way in was to climb up Chilkoot Pass
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Each miner had to carry up a ton of supplies before the Mounties would let them pass
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Sir Thomas Tancrede and ol’ Michael Heney shook hands in a Skagway bar
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To build them a railroad and send off the miners in the seat of a railway car
[Chorus]
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It took thirty thousand workers and a million pounds of powder just to lay a hundred
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miles of track
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35 men three thousand horses went to work and never came back
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Rising more than half a mile through the mountains and the glaciers bringing back those
sacks of gold
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That shiny steam engine and the narrow gauge cars of the White Pass Railroad
[Break]
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[Verse 3]
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They swung from ropes on cold granite mountains as they built them a wooden bridge
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Blasted off sections of solid rock walls carving tunnels through the ridge
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The thunder and the roar would echo through the valley as the sides of those mountains
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fell
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Heney cried out “give me dynamite enough I'll build you a track to hell”
[Chorus]
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It took thirty thousand workers and a million pounds of powder just to lay a hundred
Bm
miles of track
G D A
35 men three thousand horses went to work and never came back
G F#m G
Rising more than half a mile through the mountains and the glaciers bringing back those
sacks of gold
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That shiny steam engine and the narrow gauge cars of the White Pass Railroad
[Break]
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[Verse 4]
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Now the golds all gone theres no more miners but the rail still runs there
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You can ride between the cars watch eagles fly as you rode past moose and bear
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A majestic sight but just hold on tight when the bridge breaks ‘neith your weight
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Your heart in awe of what the miners saw in the days of 98
[Chorus]
Bm G D
It took thirty thousand workers and a million pounds of powder just to lay a hundred
Bm
miles of track
G D A
35 men three thousand horses went to work and never came back
G F#m G
Rising more than half a mile through the mountains and the glaciers bringing back those
sacks of gold
D C D G D
That shiny steam engine and the narrow gauge cars of the White Pass Railroad
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That shiny steam engine and the narrow gauge cars of the White Pass Railroad
[Outro]
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