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When the winter closed off the ocean

The Bering sea, year twenty-five

DIsease hit Alaskan coastland

The town of Nome fought for its life

In the winds of the north

No airplane could fly

Brave men with their dogs came forth

It's up to us, let us try

We are the final hope

Through ice and storm we go

Final hope to outrun Wendigo

We go on, we will not turn around

We're the ancient union, man and beast

Pushing on through Norton Sound

When the winter showed them no mercy

Men of the northlands stood tall

From Fairbanks to western sea

Six hundred miles of trail

Along Yukon to bring relief

The relay cannot fail

In five and a half days

Vials of cure in their sled

Through the blackest of nights

The lead dogs led

The cruelest of miles

Live in a memory