The Cremation of Sam McGee - Poetry Demo

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Description

An excerpt from a reading of Robert W. Service's poem the Cremation of Sam McGee.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men whom oil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queer ist they ever did see was the night on the Marge of Lake LaBarge. I cremated Sam McGee. Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows while he left his home in the South to roam around the pole. God only knows he was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell, though he'd often say in a homely way that he'd sooner live in ****.