Roll On Columbia, Roll On chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on, roll on,
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Columbia, roll on,
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your power is turning our darkness to dawn,
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roll on, Columbia, roll on.
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Someone asked me if I'd
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sing this song,
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which was written by Woody Guthrie
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back in the year 1941.
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He wrote it for the Bonneville
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Power Administration.
He got a job for them
working as a research assistant.
It was the only way they
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could figure out how to hire him
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to make up songs for them.
Green Douglas spurs where
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the waters cut through.
Down her wild mountains an
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d canyons she flew.
Canadian Northwest to the
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oceans  so  blue.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Y 'all sing it.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on
Your power is turning our
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darkness to  dawn
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So roll on, Columbia, roll on
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Other great rivers lend power to you,
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Yakima, Snake, and the Klickatath too, Sandy,
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Willamette, and the Hood River too.
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So  roll on, Columbia, roll on.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Your power is turning the
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darkness to  dawn.
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So roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Hey, we need some harmony
on this song, too.
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And on up the river is Grand Coulee Dam,
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the biggest thing built by the hand of a man
to run the great factories
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and wa ter the land.
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So roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Here we go.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Your power is turning the
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darkness to light.
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So roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Tom Jefferson's vision
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would not let him rest.
An empire he saw in the
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Pacific Northwest,
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St. Louis and Clark and David the rest.
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So roll on Columbia, roll on.
One more time.
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Roll on Columbia, roll on.
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Rohan, Columbia, Rohan
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Your power is turning our darkness to dawn
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So Rohan, Columbia, Rohan