Song Lyrics Hank Snow - Spell Of The Yukon    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> H>> Hank Snow Singer Lyrics [Hank Snow other resources]>> Spell Of The Yukon Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Hank Snow Music Title/Track: Spell Of The Yukon Theme ID: 4049 Album: N/A I wanted the gold and I sought it I scrabbled and mucked like a slave Was it famine or scurvy I fought it I hurled my youth into a grave I wanted the gold and I got it came out with a fortune last fall Yet somehow life's not what I thought it and somehow the gold isn't all No there's the land have you seen it it's the cussedest land that I know From the big dizzy mountains that screen it to the deep death-like valleys below Some say God was tired when he made it some say it's a fine land to shun Maybe but there's some that would trade it for no land owner and I'm one You come to get rich that's a good reason you feel like an exile at first You hate it like hell for a season and then you're worse than the worst It grips you like some kinds of sinning it twists you from foe to a friend It seems it's been since the beginning it seems it will be to the end I've stood in some mighty mouthed-hollow that's plumb full of hush to the brim I've watched the big husky sun wallow in crimson and gold and grow dim Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming and the stars tumbled out neck and crop And I thought that I surely was dreaming with the peace of the world piled on top The summer no sweeter was ever the sunshiny woods all a thrill The grayling a leap in the river the bighorn asleep on a hill The strong life that never knows harness the wilds where the caribou call The freshness the freedom the farness oh God how I'm stuck on it all The winter the brightness that blinds you the white land locked tight as a drum The cold fear that follows and finds you the silence that bludgeons you dumb The snows that are older than history the woods where the weird shadows slant The stillness the moonlight the myst'ry I'd bade them goodbye but I can't There's a land where the mountains are nameless And the rivers all run God knows where There are lives that are erring and aimless and deaths that just hang by a hair There are hardships that nobody reckons there are valleys unpeopled and still There's a land oh how it beckons and beckons and I want to go back and I will They're making my money diminish I'm sick of the taste of champagne Thank God when I'm skinned to a finish I'll pike to the Yukon again I'll fight and you bet it's no sham fight it's hell but I've been there before And it's better than this by a damn sight so me for the Yukon once more There's gold and its haunting and haunting it's luring me on as of old Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting so much as just finding the gold It's the great big broadland way up yonder it's the forest where silence has lease It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder it's the stillness that fills me with peace Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Tangled Mind, Tb Blues, Teardrops In My Heart, Texas Plains, Texas Silver Zephyr, That Heart Belongs to Me, The Alphabet, The Alphabet Song, The Anniversary Of My Broken Heart, The Answer To Little Blossom, The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill, The Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry, The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike, The Bill Is Falling Due, The Blue Velvet Band, The Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud, The Broken Wedding Ring, The Convict And The Rose, The Crazy Engineer, The Cremation Of Sam McGee, The Drunkards Son, The End Of The World, The Face On The Barroom Floor, The Galveston Rose, The Gold Rush Is Over, The Golden Rocket, The Greatest Sin, The Highest Bidder, THE LAST RIDE, The Law Of Love, The Mysterious Lady From St. Martinique, The Name Of the Game Was Love, The New Blue Velvet Band, The Next Voice You Hear, The Night I Stole Old Sammy Morgans Gin, The Only Rose, The Owl And I, The Party of The Secong Part, The Prisoned Cowboy, The Reindeer Boogie, THE RESTLESS ONE, The Rhumba Boogie, The Runt, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Spell Of The Yukon, The Streamlined Cannonball, The Sun Has Gone Down On Our Love, The Texas Cowboy, The Texas Silver Zephyr, The Wishing Well, Other Hank Snow song Lyrics (seashores Of) Old Mexico Lyrics 90 Miles An Hour Lyrics 90 Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street) Lyrics A Daisy Day Lyrics A Good Gal Is Good To Find Lyrics A Letter To Santa Claus Lyrics A Little Box Of Pine On The 729 Lyrics A Message From The Trade Winds Lyrics A Scale To Measure Love Lyrics Act 1, Act 2, Act 3 Lyrics Address Unknown Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Hank The Knife The Jets Lyrics Hank Thompson Lyrics Hank Williams Lyrics Hank Williams III Lyrics Hank Williams Jr. Lyrics Hank Williams Sr. Lyrics Hankey Mr Lyrics Hanna Berglund Lyrics Hanna Pakarinen Lyrics Hannah Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy