There’s a caribou wind blowing from the North The Peace River springs from its source A bush pilot flies a course – for the bull camps The raven cries and the loon calls Indian summer in the early fall Black bear rug hanging on the wall The trap line is set, the cord wood cut Racks in the smokehouse all filled up Fresh game on the backs of the hunter’s trucks
Chorus: Where Huskies and Husqvuarna’s are the tools of the trade With the Kodiaks and the cougar cats staking out a claim The magnetic needle guides the way To the barrens and the Arctic Straits And chainsaws and sled dogs they won’t let you down A thousand miles North of a 100 Mile House
Chilkoot graves in the days of old Gravel in the riverbed heavy with gold Wolverine tracks in the silence of the snow Hear the lead dogs ‘neath the Northern lights The muskeg roads are a bridge of ice
And the glaciers creeping closer all the time There’s a moose in the timber frail and old He’s growing weak and the wolves are close They leave behind nothing but his bones
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The trappers and the traders tell How they came for the beaver pelts And found the seeping sands at Norman Wells In the dark of night out on the road There’s shining eyes and dark shadows A few remaining woodland buffalo See the legends of the Northern Route In the eyes of the malamute And the spirit of the great bear stands true