American Child

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 could 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 an unbroken land
Before the machine changed the blue and the green
To something you can't understand

American Child, there's a burden inside you
That calls you away through the cold
To come back again to all that you've been
Can't you see it's time to come home

To the valleys and the seas, and the rivers and the trees
And the Earth who's the mother of all
A promised 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 could be free

Men can be free
Goin' up to Alaska
Goin' up to Alaska
Goin' up to Alaska