Jim Reeves - (Far Away Feeling) The Spell Of The Yukon Lyrics

Lyrics (Far Away Feeling) The Spell Of The Yukon - Jim Reeves



(Spoken)
I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy, I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it
Came out with a fortune last fall,
Yet somehow life′s not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.
No! There′s the land. Have you seen it?
It's the cussedest land that I know,
From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
Some say God was tired when He made it;
Some say it's a fine land to shun;
Maybe; but there′s some as would trade it
For no land on earth, and I′m one.
You come to get rich, damned good reason;
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season,
And then you are worse than the worst.
It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it's been since the beginning;
It seems it will be to the end.
I′ve stood in some mighty-mouthed hollow
That's plumb-full of hush to the brim;
I′ve watched the big, husky sun wallow
In crimson and gold, and grow dim,
Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming,
And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop;
And I've thought that I surely was dreaming,
With the peace o′ the world piled on top.
The summer, no sweeter was ever;
The sunshiny woods all athrill;
The grayling aleap in the river,
The bighorn asleep on the hill.
The strong life that never knows harness;
The wilds where the caribou call;
The freshness, the freedom, the farness
O God! how I'm stuck on it all.
The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows and finds you,
The silence that bludgeons you dumb.
The snows that are older than history,
The woods where the weird shadows slant;
The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,
I've bade ′em goodbye, but I can′t.
There's a land where the mountains are nameless,
And the rivers all run God knows where;
There are lives that are erring and aimless,
And deaths that just hang by a hair;
There are hardships that nobody reckons;
There are valleys unpeopled and still;
There′s a land, oh, it beckons and beckons,
And I want to go back, and I will.
They're making my money diminish;
I′m sick of the taste of champagne.
Thank God! when I'm skinned to a finish
I′ll pike to the Yukon again.
I'll fight, and you bet it's no sham-fight;
It′s hell! but I′ve been there before;
And it's better than this by a greatsite
So me for the Yukon once more.
There′s gold, and it's haunting and haunting;
It′s luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn't the gold that I′m wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,
It′s the forests where silence has lease;
It′s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It's the stillness that fills me with peace...



Writer(s): Anita Kerr, Robert W. Service


Jim Reeves - Losing Your Love
Album Losing Your Love
date of release
08-11-2013

1 Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
2 Teach Me How to Pray
3 How Long Has It Been?
4 Satan Can't Hold Me
5 Yours (Quiereme Mucho)
6 Mother Went a-Walkin'
7 That's A Sad Affair
8 What Were You Doing Last Night
9 What Would You Do?
10 I Know And You Know
11 How Many
12 I'd Like to Be
13 I'm Getting Better
14 Where Does a Broken Heart Go
15 Blue Boy
16 Tweedle O 'Twill
17 Goodnight Irene
18 Don't Tell Me
19 I'm Beginning To Forget You
20 Don't Ask Me Why
21 Your Old Love Letters
22 That's My Desire
23 Waltzing on Top of the World
24 I Love You More
25 Then I'll Stop Loving You
26 Losing Your Love
27 Dear Hearts And Gentle People
28 You're the Only Good Thing
29 You'll Never Be Mine Again
30 I Can't Fly
31 Pride Goes Before A Fall
32 I Get The Blues When It Rains
33 You Belong To Me
34 Everywhere You Go
35 A Letter To My Heart
36 I'm Gonna Change Everything
37 Need Me
38 I Care No More
39 Am I Losing You? - Remake (Rerecorded)
40 I Know One
41 Blues In My Heart
42 I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore
43 Final Affair
44 Home
45 Marie
46 Mona Lisa
47 Stand At Your Window
48 Partners
49 Margie
50 Sweet Sue Just You
51 Young Hearts
52 Ramona
53 How Can I Write on Paper (What I Feel In My Heart)
54 Maria Elena
55 My Mary
56 Overnight
57 Two Shadows On Your Window
58 My Lips Are Sealed
59 Yonder Comes a Sucker
60 A Beautiful Life
61 In the Garden
62 The Flowers, The Sunset, The Trees
63 When Two Worlds Collide
64 Have You Ever Been Lonely
65 All Dressed Up And Lonely
66 It Is No Secret
67 I'm A Fool To Care
68 Padre of Old San Antone
69 Precious Memories
70 Be Honest With Me
71 An Evening Prayer
72 Blue Skies
73 God Be With You
74 In a Mansion Stands My Love
75 I Won't Forget You
76 The Gods Were Angry With Me
77 There's Always Me
78 Am I That Easy to Forget
79 Look Behind You
80 Little Ole You
81 Ding Dong
82 A Fallen Star
83 Echo Bonita
84 Most of the Time
85 It's No Sin
86 Just Walking In The Rain
87 Gypsy Heart
88 Penny Candy
89 Tahiti
90 Trouble In The Amen Corner
91 Let Me Love You Just A Little
92 Roly Poly
93 I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In
94 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
95 Annabel Lee
96 The Gun
97 Breeze (Bring My Baby Back To Me)
98 The Farmer and the Lord
99 Oklahoma Hills
100 The Shifting Whispering Sands
101 Love Me a Little Bit More
102 Old Tige
103 Why Do I Love You (Melody of Love)
104 Each Time You Leave
105 (Far Away Feeling) The Spell Of The Yukon
106 Ichabod Crane
107 Men With Broken Hearts
108 Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals
109 Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt
110 Seven Days
111 The Highway to Nowhere
112 Streets Of Laredo
113 If You Were Mine
114 That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine
115 Pickin' a Chicken
116 The Fool's Paradise
117 It's Nothin' To Me
118 The Mighty Everglades
119 The Letter Edged in Black
120 The Tie That Binds
121 The Wreck of the Number Nine
122 Dark Moon
123 Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
124 Take Me In Your Arms and Hold Me
125 Don't You Want to Be My Girl (Poor Little Doll)?
126 Almost
127 You're Free to Go
128 No One To Cry To
129 I Was Just Walkin' Out the Door
130 Room Full Of Roses
131 We Could
132 Wishful Thinking
133 Honey, Won't You Please Come Home
134 If Heartache Is the Fashion
135 Theme Of Love (I Love To Say I Love You)
136 After Awhile
137 Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
138 Just Call Me Lonesome
139 Now and Then There's a Fool Such As I
140 'til the End of the World
141 How's The World Treating You
142 Making Believe




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