His daddy built a house of sod
just for the winter
Come summer built a house of
stone
Cleared the virgin land and
they did it by hand
Workin' aching fingers to the
bone
He met my Nanny in a country
school house
Where they danced the night
away
Bought a gold band and asked
for the hand
Of pretty little Katy McKay
Green Bluff girl then moved into
Maple Grove
Just a little south of town
Helping in the fields and cooking
all the meals
And watching little babies run
around
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Now I walk the same fields and
the forests
But it's not as it once used
to be
And I realize with tears in
my eyes
Time fades their memory
'20s brought good times, '30s
took them back
'40s called the second son away
Winter '55 took and old man's
life
And a woman's will to live another
day
But the house still stands to
the memory of a man
Who settled on this prairie
land
Trees a-blowing in the wind
are still growing
Planted by a woman's loving
hand