歌手: Jim Reeves
时长: 04:19
Spell of the Yukon - Jim Reeves[00:00:00]
I wanted the gold and I sought it[00:00:10]
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave[00:00:12]
Was it famine or scurvy I fought it[00:00:16]
I hurled my youth into a grave[00:00:20]
I wanted the gold and I got it[00:00:23]
Came out with a fortune last fall[00:00:27]
Yet somehow life's not what I thought it[00:00:30]
And somehow the gold isn't all[00:00:34]
No there's the land have you seen it[00:00:39]
The it's cursedest land that I know[00:00:43]
From the big dizzy mountains that screen it[00:00:46]
To the deep deathlike valleys below[00:00:49]
Some say god was tired when he made it[00:00:53]
Some say it's a fine land to shun[00:00:57]
Maybe but there's some as would trade it[00:01:01]
Land for no on earth and I'm one[00:01:04]
You come to get rich damned good reason[00:01:09]
You feel like an exile at first[00:01:13]
You hate it like hell for a season[00:01:15]
And then you are worse than the worst[00:01:18]
It grips you like some kinds of sinning[00:01:21]
It twists you from foe to a friend[00:01:24]
It seems it's been since the beginning[00:01:28]
It seems it will be to the end[00:01:31]
I've stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow[00:01:35]
That's plumb-full of hush to the brim[00:01:37]
I've watched the big husky sun wallow[00:01:41]
In crimson and gold and grow dim[00:01:43]
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming[00:01:47]
And the stars tumbled out neck and crop[00:01:50]
And I've thought that I surely was dreaming[00:01:54]
With the peace o' world piled on top[00:01:56]
The summer no sweeter was ever[00:02:01]
The sunshiny woods all a thrill[00:02:05]
The gray ling a leap in the river[00:02:07]
The bighorn asleep on the hill[00:02:10]
The strong life that never knows harness[00:02:13]
The wilds where the caribou call[00:02:17]
The freshness the freedom the fairness[00:02:20]
O god how I'm stuck on it all[00:02:24]
The winter the brightness that blinds you[00:02:29]
The white land locked tight as a drum[00:02:32]
The cold fear that follows and finds you[00:02:34]
The silence that bludgeons you dumb[00:02:38]
The snows that are older than history[00:02:41]
The woods where the weird shadows slant[00:02:44]
The stillness the moonlight the mystery[00:02:47]
I've bade 'em goodbye but I can't[00:02:54]
There's a land where the mountains are nameless[00:02:58]
And the rivers all run god knows where[00:03:01]
There are lives that are erring and aimless[00:03:05]
And deaths that just hang by a hair[00:03:08]
There are hardships that nobody reckons[00:03:12]
There are valleys unpeopled and still[00:03:15]
There's a land oh it beckons and beckons[00:03:19]
And I want to go back and I will[00:03:24]
They're making my money diminish[00:03:28]
I'm sick of the taste of champagne[00:03:29]
Thank god when I'm skinned to a finish[00:03:32]
I'll pike to the Yukon again[00:03:35]
I'll fight and you bet it's no sham-fight[00:03:37]
It's hell but I've been there before[00:03:39]
And it's better than this by a great site[00:03:43]
So me for the Yukon once more[00:03:46]
There's gold and it's haunting and haunting[00:03:50]
It's luring me on as of old[00:03:54]
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting[00:03:56]
So much as just finding the gold[00:03:58]
It's the great big broad land 'way up yonder[00:04:01]
It's the forests where silence has lease[00:04:04]
It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder[00:04:07]
It's the stillness that fills me with peace[00:04:10]