John Denver American Child song lyrics

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 of John Denver (Single CD) and The John Denver Collection - 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