North Idaho Woods

North Idaho Woods Blues- original song by Frank Delaney. 2 of the prettiest places I've been are Northern Washington and North Idaho. I did some prospecting around Mineral Mountain, near Colville, Washington. I've panned for gold in the river near Orofino, and slept in the woods along the Priest River, and Priest lake.

I worked in North Idaho for a few years in the 1970's, and at that time a lot of cars had bumper stickers that said "Don't Californicate North Idaho". The local folks were against out of state millionaires coming in and commercializing and destroying the beauty of this land. This area is one of the last places in America where the pioneer spirit still thrives, and there's a lot of people who enjoy living out in the woods, just off the land. People are free to do and go as they please.

I wrote this song at that time, based on some real stories I had read about, as a message to those people who would want to come in and turn this land into one big parking lot.

There were several people who disappeared in North Idaho; a runner at Priest lake, and a woman near Moscow. Near Rathdrum, which is in the Hoodoo valley near Spirit lake, there was a couple that disappeared, and there were animals found slaughtered in ritual style; rumors of devil worshipping flesh eating cults, and instances of cars trying to be stopped on the highway at night by people wearing cult type robes. .

Now there was hypocrisy on both sides, the developers who just wanted to run over the local people and develop the land, and the local chamber of commerce who knew of these problems but didn't exactly want to put them in their visitor brochures.

You know, like beautiful wilderness area, good schools, major hospitals nearby, a few flesh eaters, clean water, low property taxes, some devil worshippers, 9 hole golf course, recreational areas, and an occasional animal mutilation or two.

25 years later, many of these mysteries have been cleared up, but the development in North Idaho continues. This is to those people who see dollar signs where the rest of us want to see trees..

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