Words & Music by Tim Hus
Copyright Tim Hus Music 2002

On a misty November morning back in 1885
A crowd of men were gathered down on the railroad ties
Thirty miles West of Revelstoke on that famous site
Donald A. Smith drove the last spike

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And the called it Craigellachie
Three thousand miles from sea to sea
And the called it Craigellachie
On that day in history

B.C. joined Confederation and a promise it was made
The Canadian Pacific would build a railway
Through timberland and prairie the iron rails would reach
Port Moody on the Pacific to the St. Laurence in the East

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Rogers found a mountain pass in fourty feet of snow
And the trestles crossed the rapids in the valley far below
Ten thousand men laying rail on a road of sweat and blood
And how many lost their lives in slides of rock and mud?

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They said to build this railroad would take ten years to do
But in four-and-one-half years, you know, the dream it had come true
Thirty miles West of Revelstoke on that famous site
Donald A. Smith drove the last spike

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