Robert William Service Poems

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David N Johnson: The Man From Athabasca takes on new life if you listen to Country Joe McDonald sing it in his War, War, War album. Look it up on YouTube. He did a studio version in 1971, and a live performance nearly forty years later. It grabs your heart.

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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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