Chords for Norman Wade - North To Alaska The Gold Rush Is Gone

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_ _ _ It took mighty men like Sam McCord [F] to tame a town [Bb] like Nome.
_ [Eb] That fighting breed of Yukon men with a code [Bb] all their own. _
[Eb] They'd stand up to a grizzly bear and look him [Bb] in the eye.
_ But before they'd run or grab a gun, [F] a Yukon man [Bb] would die.
_ Where the gold they were finding, [Eb] the pipeline is winding [Bb] north to Alaska.
[F] The gold rush [Bb] is gone.
_ _ That arctic wind is howling [F] in that far [Bb] northern land. _ _
[Eb] It moans above the grace of many a [Bb] good man.
_ [Eb] It's boarded below just a little southeast [Bb] of Nome.
And the ground still freezes [F] a little harder [Bb] than stone.
_ Where the gold they were finding, [Eb] a pipeline is winding [Bb] north to Alaska.
[F] The gold rush [Bb] is gone.
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_ They've torn down the timbers and [Gb] they've dug up [B] the ground.
_ _ [E] It took ten thousand men to lay that big [B] pipe down.
_ _ [E] Fast trains and jet airplanes are changing [B] our land. _ _
But mighty men like Sam McCord [Gb] took it all [B] by hand. _
Where the gold they were finding, [E] a pipeline is winding [B] north to Alaska.
[Gb] The gold rush is [B] gone.
_ _ North to Alaska.
The [Gb] gold rush is [B] gone. _ _ _ _ _
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