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Roll On Columbia, Roll On chords by
Pete Seeger
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Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on, roll on,
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D

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Columbia, roll on,
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your power is turning our darkness to dawn,
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D

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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 Columbi a, 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

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Chords
  • D

  • A

  • Em

  • G

Capo: 1

Transpose: 0

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The original key of Roll On Columbia, Roll On by Pete Seeger is Eb major.

The primary chords used in Roll On Columbia, Roll On are Eb, Bb, Fm, Ab.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 1 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Eb, Bb, Fm, Ab, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of Roll On Columbia, Roll On is approximately 67 beats per minute.

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