Key: D minor
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Verse 1
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Aska me about Alaska,
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if you care a tinker's dam n
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What I have to say about the
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Russian Bear and Uncle Sam
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Vitus Bering rediscovered Straights
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that somehow Bear his name
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After they had been discovered
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many times before he came
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Al ex ander Baranov,
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Administrator to the Czar
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Sat in Sitka with his books and paintings,
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eating caviar
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Then,
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in 1867, Seward bought it for a song
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Sing a song of seven million,
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and a fifth of something Strong
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Playing for itself in gold,
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some twenty times the price he payed
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"Seward's Folly" was, by golly,
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where a killing could be made
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1912, a territory, 1952, a state
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All the Tlingit's were so sorry,
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Uncle Sam had come so late
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When the exploitation's over
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and the last exploiter's gone
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Then whatever left of life and limb can try to carry on
Outro 1
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