The Great Robert Service

An Englishman born with the great gift of rhyme He lived in the Yukon in his glorious prime A master wordsmith of the twentieth century He glorified Dan Mgrew and Sam Magee. With words 'twould be fair to say he had a way And in his stirring ballads he lives on today The great Robert Service he knew of great fame And in the Yukon his lives as a legendary name. His ballads and poems to the masses are known The great Robert Service was in a class of his own He sang of life and death in the lands of the snow And the rhymes from his pen in great torrents did flow. He sang of the Yukon in the days of old And of the desperate characters who moiled for gold And of the barmaids and hookers of old Dawson Town Where he penned his way into literary renown. A poet at heart and that type are so rare And few with Robert Service that one could compare He penned stirring ballads of the Land of snow And in death as in life his legend seem to grow.