A E A D A E A

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   When I was a child and I lived in the city
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   I dreamed of Alaska so far away
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   and I dreamed I was flying over mountains and glaciers
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   somehow I knew that I'd live there one day

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   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
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   and I felt like a loser but I turned out the winner
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   when I came to Alaska the land that I love

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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
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      here's to my life in a chosen country
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      here's to Alaska and me.

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   I was born in a cabin on little Mulchatna
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   raised in hard times but I had a good life
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   from the first time I flew with my father a singin'
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   I knew that I'd  wind up a bush pilot's wife.

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   We sleep near the sound of a slow running river
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   and wake up most mornings to a drizzling rain
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   and we live every day like the first or the last one
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   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
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   for all of the beauty my children will see
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   here's to Alaska and me.

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   Here's to Alaska, here's to the people
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   here's to the wild and here's to the free
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   here's to my life in a chosen country
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   here's to Alaska and me
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   oh, here's to Alaska and me