When it's gone do you know what it means
Going up to Alaska
His own way through an unbroken land?
Going up to Alaska
Before the machine changed the blue and the green
Up to the land of the midnight sun
Going up to Alaska
To come back again to all that you've been
You that calls you away through the cold
Can't you see that it's time to come home?
Up to the north and the pioneer life
And the earth who's the mother of all?
Ever sing through the mist of your dreams?
Will we rise with the vision or fall?
Up to the north and the pioneer life
Does it fly with the wind when you waken again
And a man can be free, men can be free
American child there's a burning inside
A promise once made will it shine, will it fade
Where the whale and polar bear run
Going up to Alaska
American child, does the call of the wild
To the valleys and the seas and the rivers and the trees
Where courage and strength still survive
And a man can be free
Over the icy blue sea
Can you picture the time when a man had to find
To something you can't understand?
Over the icy blue sea
Where courage and strength still survive
Going up to Alaska
Where the whale and polar bear run
