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(mike phillips)
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
Big sam left seattle in the year of ninety two
With george pratt, his partner and brother billy, too
They crossed the yukon river and found the bonanza gold
Beneath that old white mountain, just a little southeast of nome
Sam crossed the majestic mountains
To the valleys far below
He talked to his team of huskies
As he mushed on through the snow
With the northern lights runnin' wild
In the land of the midnight sun
Yes sam mccord was a mighty man
In the year of nineteen-one
Where the river is windin'
Big nuggets they're findin'
North to alaska

Go north, the rush is on
Where the river is windin'
Big nuggets they're findin'
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
George turned to sam with his gold in his hand
Said, "sam, you're lookin' at a lonely, lonely man
I'd trade all the gold that's buried in this land
For one small band of gold to place on sweet jenny's hand
'cause a man needs a woman to love him all the time
You know sam, a true love is so hard to find
I'd build for my jenny a honeymoon home
Beneath that old white mountain
Just a little southeast of nome."
Where the river is windin'
Big nuggets they're findin'
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
North to alaska
Go north, the rush in on
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
Way up north
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
Way up north
Way up north
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on
North to alaska
Go north, the rush is on

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Purveyor of the bakersfield sound, country singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam grew up in Columbus, Ohio before first heading to Nashville and eventually west to Los Angeles, and bought a place in Bakersfield, CA near his idol & mentor Buck Owens. Active as a recording artist since the early 1980s, Yoakam has appeared in films, on over thirty charting singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and a plethora of albums and compilations selling well in excess of 20 million units worldwide.

His distinctive twang sound has been linked with production & arranging collaborator Pete Anderson who has helmed the boards for the most commercially successful period of Yoakam's career. Starting out in the early 80's in L.A Yoakam's group played with "roots" acts like The Blasters, eventually covering their song "Long White Cadillac". Other popular covers by Yoakam include Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in 1999, and ZZ Top's I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide in 2003. Dwight has Yoakam'd out other unlikely songs by not exclusively country related groups like The Grateful Dead, The Kinks, The Clash and Cheap Trick'sI Want You To Want Me. One of his first breakthrough records was a song done by Johnny Horton called "Honky Tonk Man", another stand out cover track was his reworking of Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" done with Pete Anderson for the 1992 Honeymoon In Vegas soundtrack.

His own hits like "Guitars, Cadillacs" and "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" are classic songs in their own right, but nearly every song or cover Yoakam churns out stays true to his sound, and finds welcome among fans of both roots music & modern country. With 1989's Grammy winning "The Streets of Bakersfield", Yoakam was credited with revitalizing the career of the late Buck Owens, who'd fallen out of favor with the pop-oriented contemporary Nashville music industry.

Yoakam's more recent releases on New West after a long period with major labels include "Blame the Vain", and the posthumous Buck Owens tribute Dwight Sings Buck. Both continue in the solid and traditional styles of past albums from this long time fan favorite who continues to please crowds all over the country and who has performed on the NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno more than other act in history (24x as of late 2007).

http://www.myspace.com/dwightyoakam

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