The Cremation of Sam McGee

A 70 year old hunting buddy would recite this too us every year at the camp. Great memory. He had to memorize it in school back in the dai...say 1950? Love it.

Fantastic job! I haven't read that since around 1979, and loved your rendition. Thank You!

By far one of the best videos on YT. Everything just falls into place.

I memorized this poem in 1958 when I was a fifth grader in Fort Greeley, Alaska....this was soooo much better than my reading of it and just brought back wonderful, cold memories of nights of 70 below and warm fires and fine friends.

This has been in my favourites for over a year now. I often listen over again. Just felt that another "thankyou Urgelt" was called for. Fabulous reading..

this was one of my fav poems in school.

Service didn't arrive at the Yukon Territory till 1904, 5 years after the klondike gold rush was over. he never actually went out for gold. he was just a brilliant writer of ficticious poems.

this is awesome. you did really good at interpreting it into a horror feeling, i could watch this all day.

That was really good man ive heard that poem before but i really didnt enjoy it till i heard it told like this telling it like a horror mission acomplished

This is one reason I love his poetry. This isn't the stuff you hear from the lecterns of academia. It's a man talking to people using the plain language you might expect to hear around a campfire. Plain... but gloriously fitted into exquisite and evocative shapes.