Aska me about Alaska, if you care a tinker´s [bad word] 
What I have to say about [bad word] Bear and Uncle Sam.
Vitus Bering rediscovered Streights that somehow Bear his name,
After they had been discovered many times before he came.
Alexander Baranov, Administra(i)tor to the Czar, Sat in Sitka with his books and paintings, eating caviar.
Then, in 1867, Seward bought it for a song; Sing a song of seven million, and a fifth of something Strong.
Playing for itself in gold, some twenty times the price he payed, "Seward´s Folly" was, by golly, where a killing could be made.
1912, a territory, 1952, a state.
All the Tlingits were so sorry, Uncle Sam [bad word] so late.
When the exploitation´s over and the last exploiter´s gone,
Then whatever left of life and limb can try to carry on.