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Artist/Band: Hank Snow
Lyrics for Song: The Spell of the Yukon
Lyrics for Album: The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994]



(Robert W. Service)



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 depth-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...


Album Lyrics: The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994]


Hank Snow
"The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 [Bear Family (Germany)] [1994]"


1. I Love You Because
2. I Care No More
3. Fraulein
4. Return to Me
5. Mansion on the Hill
6. Limbo Rock
7. Tammy
8. Wheels
9. Tiptoeing
10. Poison Love
11. Hold Me Tight
12. I Saw the Light
13. Difficult
14. Little Stranger (In a Manger)
15. Christmas Roses
16. Silent Night
17. C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s
18. White Christmas
19. Frosty the Snowman
20. God Is My Santa Claus
21. I Ain't Been Anywhere
22. Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
23. Invisible Hands
24. Sweet Hour of Prayer
25. Jesus Wept
26. These Things Shall Pass
27. His Hands
28. Farther Along
29. Gloryland March
30. I Saw a Man
31. This Train
32. I See Jesus
33. Shopworn
34. I'm Glad I'm on the Inside Looking Out
35. I'll Go Marching Into Glory
36. How Big Is God
37. Lord's Way of Saying Goodnight
38. Promised to John
39. My Adobe Hacienda
40. No Letter Today
41. I Dreamed of An Old Love Affair
42. For Sale
43. Rose of Old Monterey
44. Moonlight and Skies
45. You and My Old Guitar
46. Down the Old Road to Home
47. I'm Sorry We Met
48. Teardrops in My Heart
49. Ridin' Home
50. Heartbreak Trail
51. Cool Water
52. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
53. At the Rainbow's End
54. Chant of the Wanderer
55. On the Rhythm Range
56. Following the Sun All Day
57. Blue Side of Lonesome
58. Green, Green Grass of Home
59. Once More You're Mine Again
60. There Goes My Everything
61. All the Time
62. It Kinda Reminds Me of Me
63. Blue, Blue Day
64. He Dropped the World in My Hands
65. Call of the Wild
66. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
67. You're the Reason
68. It's a Little More Like Heaven
69. Galway Bay
70. Lili Marlene
71. Geisha Girl
72. Melba from Melbourne
73. Cuba Rhumba
74. Queen of Draw Poker Club
75. Now Is the Hour
76. In the Misty Moonlight
77. From a Jack to a King
78. She Wears My Ring
79. Mary Ann Regrets
80. White Silver Sands
81. Lonesome 7-7203
82. Gonna Find Me a Bluebird
83. Sweet Lies
84. Handcuffed to Love
85. Bummin' Around
86. I've Cried a Mile
87. You Take the Future (And I'll Take the Past)
88. Flying South
89. Miami Snow
90. At the First Fall of Snow
91. You're as Welcome as the Flowers in May
92. January
93. Springtime in the Rockies
94. Roses in the Snow
95. Beyond the Reef
96. Trade Winds
97. Don't Sing Aloha When I Go
98. Oahu Rose
99. The Wayward Wind
100. Walking the Last Mile
101. Old Rover
102. Put Your Arms Around Me
103. Little Joe
104. Cross the Brazos at Waco
105. Nuevo Laredo
106. Adios Amigo
107. Maria Elena
108. Senorita Rosalita
109. Dangerous Dan McGrew
110. Ballad of One Eyed Mike
111. My Friends
112. I Wish My Heart Could Talk
113. Wreck of the Old '97
114. Crazy Little Train of Love
115. Blue Yodel, No. 10
116. Father Time and Mother Love
117. Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [With Wave Effect]
118. Rockin' Rollin' Ocean [Without Wave Effect]
119. Casey's Washerwoman Boogie [Instrumental]
120. Hawaiian Sunset [Instrumental]
121. The Man Who Robbed the Bank at Santa Fe
122. The Texas Plains
123. Patanio (The Pride of the Plains)
124. A Legend in My Time
125. A Petal from a Faded Rose
126. The Change of the Tide
127. Mockin' Bird Hill
127. If It's Wrong to Love You
127. The Blue Canadian Rockies
127. Sonny Boy [Instrumental]
127. Unchained Melody [Instrumental]
127. Beautiful Dreamer [Instrumental]
127. Brahms' Lullaby [Instrumental]
127. Blue Tango [Instrumental]
127. Dark Moon [Instrumental]
127. I Can't Stop Loving You [Instrumental]
127. The Convict and the Rose [Instrumental]
127. The Waltz You Saved for Me
127. Lay My Head Beneath a Rose [Instrumental]
127. Whispering Hope [Instrumental]
127. Sentimental Journey [Instrumental]
127. Am I Losing You? [Instrumental]
127. I Get the Blues When It Rains [Instrumental]
127. Sweet Marie [Instrumental]
127. Birth of the Blues [Instrumental]
127. The Christmas Cannonball
127. A Letter to Santa Claus
127. The Face on the Barroom Floor
127. The Cremation of Sam McGee
127. The Spell of the Yukon
127. The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
127. The Last Mile of the Way
127. Dear Lord, Remember Me
127. The Runt
127. The Prisoner's Dream
127. Mother I Thank You (For the Bible You Gave)
127. Rocking Alone in an Old Rocking Chair
127. To You Sweetheart, Aloha
127. My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii
127. On the Beach in Waikiki
127. Pearly Shells
127. The Whispering Tradewinds [Instrumental]
127. Among My Souvenirs [Instrumental]
127. The Seasons
127. All Nite Cafe
127. The Tip of My Fingers
127. A Wound Time Can't Erase
127. The Name of the Game Was Love