Sam McGee

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1. There's a valley by the ol' North Pole,

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where ol' Sam McGee died in search of gold.

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Where ever I wonder in memories,

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I see the smoke from the pipe of Sam McGee.

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(He sees the smoke from the pipe of Sam McGee.)

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We had wondered way up there above the Klondike,

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where we found the mighty mountain made of gold.

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There old Sam, he got sick and made me promise,

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that if he died, I wouldn't leave him in that cold.

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(That if he died, he wouldn't leave him in the cold.)

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The next morning he was cold and stiff and lifeless,

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so I dragged him forty days upon my sled,

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'till I found a pile of driftwood in the valley,

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it was there I got the notion in my head.

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(It was there he got the notion in his head).

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2. I took out my matches and I builded a fire,

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and I laid old Sam upon the funeral pyre.

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He sat up a grinnin' with his pipe in his mouth,

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he sang, "Ho, ho, this is mighty like the south!"

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(He sang "Ho, ho, this is mighty like the south!")

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3. The flames around him had a heavenly glow,

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and the Northern Lights were just one big rainbow.

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He sat there a grinnin' with his pipe in his mouth,

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he sang "Ho, ho, this is mighty like the south!"

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(He sang "Ho, ho, this is mighty like the south!")

(Johnny Horton)