by Elisa Korenne | Oct 18, 2017 | Lyrics, Ordinarily-Unsung
Moose was a whale they say Till the whale swam into A shallow bay And the ocean went away * A long time gone When I was home The streams I’d swim The woods I’d roam Braid the grass And shovel snow I’d listen to stories When I was home I went to dance In Vaudeville...
by Elisa Korenne | Jun 30, 2017 | Lyrics, Newsletter, Ordinarily-Unsung, Songs
Featured in my new show “Crazy About You: Sifting for Sanity in the History of the Insane,” Audrey Munson is an example of how circumstances can turn a paragon of success into just another resident of a mental hospital. Born in 1891, Audrey Munson was not...
by Elisa Korenne | Oct 15, 2013 | Lyrics, Ordinarily-Unsung
Root Beer Lady – The Dorothy Moulter Song Music and lyrics by Elisa Korenne I lived in the Boundary Waters In northern Minnesota I live the life I want And I wouldn’t change it one iota I lived here most of my life Here on a Lake, on a Lake called Knife I live here...
by Elisa Korenne | Oct 15, 2013 | Lyrics, Ordinarily-Unsung
Chaska – an elegy in the voice of Sarah Wilson Music and lyrics by Elisa Korenne We were prisoners of war I thought I’d lost all I cared for I was walking through hell without a way out And you saved my life more times than I can count I defended you then and...
by Elisa Korenne | Oct 15, 2013 | Lyrics, Ordinarily-Unsung
Moonshine Music and lyrics by Elisa Korenne Barkeep, I see a bottle there I haven’t seen in many a year Studers moonshine, better than beer The best brew in the land, they’d cheer The best brew in the land 1920, Prohibition decreed No drinking was the law to heed But...
by Elisa Korenne | Oct 15, 2013 | Lyrics, Ordinarily-Unsung
Who Was I – The Susan Frenier Brown Song Music and lyrics by Elisa Korenne My father was French-Canadian and Dakota Yanktonais My mother’s grandfather was the great Chief Red Wing My husband was one of the men who built Minnesota My son was a hero in the Sioux...
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