Another member of the Michigan music community when I was resident was Sally Rogers, perhaps, best known for her song about her grandmother Agnes:
LOVELY AGNES (Sally Rogers)
Chorus:
Oh, Agnes, won't you go with me? We'll be married in style And we'll cross Lake Michigan, so blue and so wide, We'll cross over Lake Michigan, 'til we come to the shore, And our orchards will blossom for our babies as they're born.
Oh yes, love, I will go with you, leave Wisconsin behind, Though my parents think little of my life on a farm, For to leave the gay city life, and be buried on a farm, But I'll watch the orchards bloom in spring, Spend the winter's warm in your arms. (CHO)
Three children she gave to him: Curtis, Addie and Dee And their fourth child little Gussie came, ten years after these. And she raised them with loving hand and with firmness of mind And she raised them through troubled times, Agnes strong willed and kind. (CHO)
Now the years have gone and passed, like the fruit on the trees, And your children have children with babes on their knees And they all join in the summertime, by the Crystal Lake shore, To greet lovely Agnes, now twelve years and four-score. (CHO)