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American Child

American Child lyrics by John Denver. Goin up to Alaska Up to the land of the midnight sun Where the whale and the polar bear run Oer the icy blue sea Goin up...

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American Child

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Goin up to Alaska

Up to the land of the midnight sun

Where the whale and the polar bear run

Oer the icy blue sea

Goin up to Alaska

Up to the north and the pioneer life

Where courage and strength still survive

And a man can be free

American Child, does the call of the wild

Ever sing through the mist of your dreams

Does it fly with the wind when you waken again

When its gone do you know what it means

Can you picture the time when a man had to find

His own way through the cold

To come back again to all that youve been

Cant you see that its time to come home

To the flowers and seas and the rivers and the trees

And the earth whos the mother of all

A promise once made - will it shine, will it fade

Will we rise with the vision or fall

Goin up to Alaska

Up to the land of the midnight sun

Where the whale and the polar bear run

Oer the icy blue sea

Goin up to Alaska

Up to the north and the pioneer life

Where courage and strength still survive

And a man can be free

Men can be free

Goin up to Alaska

Goin up to Alaska

Goin up to Alaska

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