Moondog - Aska Me lyrics
[Moondog - Aska Me lyrics]
Aska me about Alaska
If you care a tinker's damn
What I have to say about the
Russian Bear and Uncle Sam
Vitus Bering rediscovered Streights that
Somehow Bear his name
After they had been discovered many
Times before he came
Alexander Baranov, Administra
(i) tor to the Czar
Sat in Sitka with his books and paintings
Eating caviar
Then, in 1867, Seward bought it for a song
Sing a song of seven million
And a fifth of something Strong
Playing for it'self in gold
Some twenty times the price he payed
"Seward's Folly" was, by golly
Where a killing could be made
1912, a territory, 1952, a state
All the Tlingit's were so sorry
Uncle Sam had come so late
When the exploitation's over and
The last exploiter's gone
Then whatever left of life and limb
Can try to carry on
If you care a tinker's damn
What I have to say about the
Russian Bear and Uncle Sam
Vitus Bering rediscovered Streights that
Somehow Bear his name
After they had been discovered many
Times before he came
Alexander Baranov, Administra
(i) tor to the Czar
Sat in Sitka with his books and paintings
Eating caviar
Then, in 1867, Seward bought it for a song
Sing a song of seven million
And a fifth of something Strong
Playing for it'self in gold
Some twenty times the price he payed
"Seward's Folly" was, by golly
Where a killing could be made
1912, a territory, 1952, a state
All the Tlingit's were so sorry
Uncle Sam had come so late
When the exploitation's over and
The last exploiter's gone
Then whatever left of life and limb
Can try to carry on