Songs
Audio and lyrics for songs featured on A Prairie Home Companion.
Audio and lyrics for songs featured on A Prairie Home Companion.
Jay Gatsby walks to the end of his great yard
Leaving the party, the band, the dancers going
round and round
And looks at the green light out there in the dark,
A distant dock across Long Island Sound.
Morning light, soft and bright,
Wobegon reveals;
Early frost lies across
Farm and woods and fields.
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater
Would that we might dwell
Longer in thy hallowed hallways
But we say Farewell.
The first time that I met you was in a small cafe.
So stunned by your elegance, I didn’t know what to say.
Our second date was at Tanglewood and I’m not sure what we heard
It could’ve been Beethoven’s Sixth or his Twenty-Third
When John Henry was a little baby
Sitting on his papa’s knee
He took a No. 2 pencil and a yellow legal pad
He said A writer is all I want to be Lord Lord
A writer is all I want to be.
I was raised in Iowa, went to Concordia,
Swedish, I’m proud to say.
Got a job at Lutheran Brotherhood,
And I never was sick one day.
I don’t care about your wine list
I’ll just have a glass of beer.
I don’t need to hear the specials.
I just wish that she were here.