Alaska And Me
Words and Music by John Denver
from Higher Ground (1988)
A E A D A E A
E D A
When I was a child and I lived in the city
F#m D E
I dreamed for Alaska so far away
A F#m D E
and I dreamed I was flying over mountains and glaciers
A F#m D E A E
somehow I knew that I'd live there one day
A E D A
Well it took me some growin' and a fair bit of schoolin'
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and a little bit of trouble to get on the move
A F#m D E
and I felt like a loser but I turned out the winner
A F#m D E A
when I came to Alaska the land that I love
E D A
Rit: Here's to Alaska, here's to the people
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here's to the wild and here's to the free
A F#m D E
here's to my life in a chosen country
A E A E A D A E A
here's to Alaska and me.
E D A
I was born in a cabin on little Mulchatna
F#m D E
raised in hard times but I had a good life
A F#m D E
from the first time I flew with my father a singin'
A F#m D E A E
I knew that I'd wind up a bush pilot's wife.
A E D A
We sleep near the sound of a slow running river
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and wake up most mornings to a drizzling rain
A F#m D E
and we live every day like the first or the last one
A F#m D E A
with nothing to lose and heaven to gain.
Rit: Here to Alaska....
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Oh, for a fire on a cold winter's night
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and once more to gaze at the great northern lights
A F#m D E
for all of the beauty my children will see
A E A
here's to Alaska and me.
E D A
Here's to Alaska, here's to the people
F#m D E
here's to the wild and here's to the free
A F#m D E
here's to my life in a chosen country
A E A
here's to Alaska and me
D A E A
oh, here's to Alaska and me
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