When I was a child and I lived in the city I dreamed of Alaska so far away And I dreamed I was flying over mountains and glaciers Somehow I knew that Id live there one day Well, it took me some growin and a fair bit of schoolin And a little bit of trouble to get on the move And I felt like a loser, but I turned out the winner When I came to Alaska, the land that I love R: Heres to Alaska, heres to the people Heres to the wild and heres to the free Heres to Alaska and me I was born in a cabin on Little Mulchatna Raised in hard times but I had a good life From the first time I flew with my father a singin I knew that I'd wind up a bush pilots wife We sleep near the sound of a slow running river Wake up most mornings to a drizzling rain We live every day like the first or the last one With nothing to lose and heaven to gain R: Heres to Alaska... Oh, for a fire on a cold winters night Once more to gaze at the great Northern lights For all of the beauty my children will see Heres to Alaska and me R: Heres to Alaska... Oh, heres to Alaska and me