The Yukon Song

"The Yukon Song" is a poem added as bonus material to the beginning of Yukon Ho!. In it, Calvin extols the virtues of leaving civilization for the Yukon Territory.

Lyrics

My tiger friend has got the sled

And I have packed a snack.

We're all set for the trip ahead.

We're never coming back! We're abandoning this life we led!

So long, Mom and Pop! We're sick of doing what you've said And now its going to stop!

We're going where it snows all year,

Where life can have real meaning.

A place where we won't have to hear,

"Your room could stand some cleaning.

The Yukon is the place for us! That's where we want to live. Up there we'll go to yell and cuss

And act real primitive.

We'll never have to go to school,

Forced into submission,

By monstrous crabby teachers who'll

Make us learn addition.

We'll never have to clean our plate

Of veggie glops and goos.

Messily we'll masticate

Using any fork we choose!

The timber wolves will be our friends.

We'll stay up late and howl

At the moon till nighttime ends

Before going out on the prowl.

Oh what a life! We cannot wait,

To be in that arctic land,

We'll be masters of our fate,

And lead a life that's grand!

No more of parental rules!

We're heading for some snow!

We're sick of doing what you've said!

We're leaving! Yukon Ho!

"It'll build character!"
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