{"id":27850,"date":"2026-01-02T22:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=27850"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:57:51","slug":"roll-on-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/roll-on-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll on Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Woodie Gutherie\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\nC<\/span>                            G<\/span>\r\nGreen Douglas firs where the waters cut through.\r\n                            C<\/span>\r\nDown her wild mountains and canyons she flew.\r\n         C7<\/span>               F<\/span>        D7\/F#<\/span>\r\nCanadian Northwest to the ocean so blue,\r\n     G<\/span>                       C<\/span>\r\nIt's Roll on, Columbia, roll On!\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC<\/span>        G<\/span>\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\nG<\/span>        C<\/span>\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\n     C7<\/span>                   F<\/span>           D7\/F#<\/span>\r\nYour power is turning our darkness to dawn,\r\n    G<\/span>                       C<\/span>\r\nSo, Roll on, Columbia, roll on\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\nC<\/span>                      G<\/span>\r\nOther great rivers add power to you,\r\nG<\/span>                      C<\/span>\r\nYakima, Snake, and the Klickitat, too,\r\nC7<\/span>                     F<\/span>           D7\/F#<\/span>\r\nSandy, Willamette, and Hood River, too;\r\nG<\/span>                      C<\/span>\r\nRoll on Columbia, roll on!\r\n \r\n     C<\/span>                                   G<\/span>\r\nIt's there on your banks that you fought many a fight,\r\nG<\/span>                      C<\/span>\r\nSheridan's boys in the block house at night,\r\n     C7<\/span>                   F<\/span>        D7\/F#<\/span>\r\nThey saw us in death, but never in flight;\r\nG<\/span>                       C<\/span>\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on!\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC<\/span>        G<\/span>\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\nG<\/span>        C<\/span>\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\n     C7<\/span>                   F<\/span>           D7\/F#<\/span>\r\nYour power is turning our darkness to dawn,\r\n    G                       C\r\nSo, Roll on, Columbia, roll on\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nC                               G\r\nOur loved ones we lost there at Coe's little store,\r\nG                        C\r\nBy fireball and rifle, a dozen or more,\r\n   C7                  F            D7\/F#\r\nWe won by the Mary and soldiers she bore;\r\nG                       C\r\nRoll on, Columbia, Roll On!\r\n \r\nC                           G\r\nRemember the trial when the battle was won,\r\nG                               C\r\nThe wild Indian warriors to the tall timber run,\r\nC7                        F            D7\/F#\r\nWe hung every Indian with smoke in his gun;\r\nG                  C\r\nRoll on, Columbia, Roll on!\r\n \r\nC                      G\r\nYear after year we had tedious trials,\r\nG                      C\r\nFighting the rapids at Cascades and Dalles.\r\nC7                          F         D7\/F#\r\nThe Injuns rest peaceful on Memaloose Isle;\r\nG                  C\r\nRoll on, Columbia, Roll on!\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC        G\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\nG        C\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\nC7                        F           D7\/F#\r\nYour power is turning our darkness to dawn,\r\n    G                       C\r\nSo, Roll on, Columbia, roll on\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nC                           G\r\nAt Bonneville now there are ships in the locks,\r\nG                         C\r\nThe waters have risen and drownded the rocks,\r\nC7                        F            D7\/F#\r\nShip loads of plenty will steam in the docks,\r\nG                       C\r\nRoll On, Columbia, Roll On!\r\n \r\nC                        G\r\nOn up the river at Grand Coulee Dam,\r\nG                    C\r\nMightiest thing ever built by a man,\r\nC7                                 F     D7\/F#\r\nWe run the great factories for old Uncle Sam,\r\n     G                       C\r\nIt's roll on, Colombia, Roll on.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nC        G\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\nG        C\r\nRoll on, Columbia, roll on.\r\nC7                        F           D7\/F#\r\nYour power is turning our darkness to dawn,\r\n    G                       C\r\nSo, Roll on, Columbia, roll on<\/span><\/pre>\n
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Woodie Gutherie [Verse 1] C G Green Douglas firs where the waters cut through. C Down her wild mountains and canyons she flew. C7 F D7\/F# Canadian Northwest to the ocean so blue, G C It’s Roll on, Columbia, roll On! { CHORUS } C G Roll on, Columbia, roll … CLICK TO VIEW SONGRoll on Columbia<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woody-guthrie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28178,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850\/revisions\/28178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}