After following a girl to Nome, Alaska, a man comes to love his adopted home of Alaska only to have to leave to take care of his father.
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Story behind the song
This song is based strongly on the life person I once met, with elements added from from other events and people.
Lyrics
Alaska
Verse
I didn’t grow up in Alaska,
Trekked there to find this girl named Sara
Finally caught up with her near Nome,
We made wintry wilderness our home.
When Sara said farewell, to go and find herself,
I withdrew into a lonely Arctic shell.
Verse
‘Cause suddenly I was alone,
Far from the life that I had once known
Saw it was time I settled down,
Grow Alaskan roots that I had sown.
Awakened to the beauty of Alaska I believed,
From the bottom of my heart, I’d never leave.
Chorus
Majestic mountains are it’s bones,
And it’s blood, the Bering Sea,
It walks upon the Aleutian Islands,
Where the Eskimo are free.
If you pass Alaska
On you’re way to China
Won’t you wave and say hello for me?
Verse
My spirit lives in Alaska,
My folks; they’re from Oklahoma,
One day my daddy had a bad fall,
Needed someone to help him get well.
In the echoes of the bear,
And the elk, and the seal
I heard the call to help my daddy heal.
Chorus
Majestic mountains are it’s bones,
And it’s blood, the Bering Sea,
It walks upon the Aleutian Islands,
Where the Eskimo are free.
If you pass Alaska
On you’re way to China
Won’t you wave and say hello for me?
Bridge
Oh, Alaska I swear
I never meant to leave
And now my soul I bare
To Alaska; for you I grieve….
Verse
So now I’m in Oklahoma,
Wishin’ I was in Alaska
Hunting dinner with my bow,
Warming my spirit in the snow.
Although I did,
What I knew I had to do,
Alaska still lives deep within my soul.
Chorus
Majestic mountains are it’s bones,
And it’s blood, the Bering Sea,
It walks upon the Aleutian Islands,
Where the Eskimo are free.
If you pass Alaska
On your way to China
Won’t you wave and say hello for me?
Tag
If you pass Alaska
On your way to China
Won’t you wave and say hello for me?
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