American Child

This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the autograph album, and has also been released on the earth songs, the Very Best Ofjohn denver (single cd) and the john denver colle

- calypso albums.



Goin' up to alaska

Up to the land of the midnight sun

Where the whale and the polar bear run

O'er the icy blue sea



Goin' up to alaska

Up to the north and the pioneer life

Where courage and strength still survive

And a man can be free



American child, does the call of the wild

Ever sing through the mist of your dreams

Does it fly with the wind when you waken again

When it's gone do you know what it means



Can you picture the time when a man had to find

His own way through the cold

To come back again to all that you've been

Can't you see that it's time to come home



To the flowers and seas and the rivers and the trees

And the earth who's the mother of all

A promise once made - will it shine, will it fade

Will we rise with the vision or fall



Goin' up to alaska

Up to the land of the midnight sun

Where the whale and the polar bear run

O'er the icy blue sea



Goin' up to alaska

Up to the north and the pioneer life

Where courage and strength still survive

And a man can be free



Men can be free

Goin' up to alaska

Goin' up to alaska

Goin' up to alaska



Words and music by john denver and joe henry


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