White Pass Railroad
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: ECapotraste:
2nd traste
[Intro]
D G D G D
A G D A G D
[Verse 1]
D G D
Skookum Jim found gold in Bonanza Creek in eighteen ninety six
D G D
Within a year the Seattle Post screamed Gold Gold Gold get rich
A G D
A hundred thousand miners headed north to Alaska to brave the ice and cold
A G D
But more got paid by the White Pass line than those who ever found gold
[Verse 2]
D G D
In 97 the only way in was to climb up Chilkoot Pass
D G D
Each miner had to carry up a ton of supplies before the Mounties would let them pass
A G D
Sir Thomas Tancrede and ol’ Michael Heney shook hands in a Skagway bar
A G D
To build them a railroad and send off the miners in the seat of a railway car
[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
[Break]
D G D G D
A G D A G D
[Verse 3]
D G D
They swung from ropes on cold granite mountains as they built them a wooden bridge
D G D
Blasted off sections of solid rock walls carving tunnels through the ridge
A G
The thunder and the roar would echo through the valley as the sides of those mountains
D
fell
A G D
Heney cried out “give me dynamite enough I'll build you a track to hell”
[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
[Break]
D G D G D
A G D A G D
[Verse 4]
D G D
Now the golds all gone theres no more miners but the rail still runs there
D G D
You can ride between the cars watch eagles fly as you rode past moose and bear
A G D
A majestic sight but just hold on tight when the bridge breaks ‘neith your weight
A G D
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
D C D G D
That shiny steam engine and the narrow gauge cars of the White Pass Railroad
[Outro]
D G D
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