Roll On Columbia, Roll On Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Roll on, Col[A]umbia, roll on, roll on,
[D]Columbia, roll on,
your power is turning our [Em]darkness to dawn,
[A]roll on, Columbia, roll on.[D]
Someone [A]asked me if I'd
[D]sing this song,
which was [A]written by Woody Guthrie
[D]back in the [A]year 1941.
[D]He wrote it for the [A]Bonneville
Power [D]Administration.
He got a job for them
working as a research assistant.
It was the only way they
[A]could figure out how to hire him
to [D]make up songs for them.
Green Douglas spurs where
[A]the waters cut through.
Down her wild mountains an
[D]d canyons she flew.
Canadian Northwest to the
ocean[A]s s[Em]o blue.
[A]Roll on, Columbia, roll on.[D]
Y 'all sing it.
Roll on, [A]Columbia, roll on.
Roll on, Columbi[D]a, roll on
Your power is turning our
darkness [Em]to dawn
[G]So [A]roll on, Columbia, [D]roll on
Other great rivers lend [A]power to you,
Yakima, Snake, and the Klicka[D]tath too, Sandy,
Willamette, and the [A]Hood River too.
[Em]So r[A]oll on, Columbia, roll o[D]n.
Roll on, [A]Columbia, roll on.
Roll on, [D]Columbia, roll on.
Your power is turning the
darkness [Em]to dawn.
[A]So roll on, Columbia, roll [D]on.
Hey, we need some harmony
on this song, too.
And on up the river [A]is Grand Coulee Dam,
the biggest thing built by the hand [D]of a man
to run the great factories
and [A]wa ter [Em]the land.
[G]So rol[A]l on, Columbia, roll on.[D]
Here we go.
Roll on, [A]Columbia, roll on.
Roll on, [D]Columbia, roll on.
Your power is turning the
dark[Em]ness to light.
[A]So roll on, Columbia, roll [D]on.
Tom Jefferson's vision
[A]would not let him rest.
An empire he saw in the
Pa[D]cific Northwest,
St. Louis and Clark and [A]David the [Em]rest.
[G]So rol[A]l on Columbia, roll on.[D]
One more time.
Roll [Em]on Co[D]lumbi [A]a, roll on.
Rohan, Columbi[D]a, Rohan
Your power is turning our [Em]darkness to dawn
So [A]Rohan, Columbia, Ro[D]han