The next two events present a unique opportunity to see Garrison in concert with vocalist Heather Masse and accompanied by Richard Dworsky on piano. The pair exchange stories and sing songs they remember, including many classic rock songs performed as duets. And, of course, there will be some sage advice on aging and a Lake Wobegon story or two.
September 14th in Peekskill, New York
September 15th in Hammondsport, New York
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This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we revisit a classic that was recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater. Nick Lowe sings “Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day” and “Lately I’ve Let Things Slide,” Martin Sheen joins our Royal Academy of Radio Actors for a little drama and comedy from the wireless Golden Age, BR549 play “The Devil and Me” and “Little Ramona,” and Maria Jette performs “September Song” and “Song of the Auvergne.” Plus: Pat Donohue leads The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band on the “Milwaukee Blues,” the host sings a few Gene Autry songs with help from BR549, and our sound-effects man Tom Keith pays tribute to French mime Marcel Marceau. In Lake Wobegon, the Magendanzes add a concrete walleye to their menagerie of yard statuary. Listen to the show.
Wonder what was going on in 2007 to inspire the Misdemeanor Song. Here are the lyrics to this humorous jingle.
Never plead guilty to a misdemeanor
In Minnesota
You want to be sure to talk to a lawyer
There oughta be one you can gota
Minnesota it may be greener
The women are taller and the men are leaner
And it is the home of the Hormel wiener
But never plead guilty to a misdemeanor
If you are innocent.
There was a man whose name was Larry,
A pretty good man but he became very
Much an object of suspicion
When he reached under his partition.
He tapped his foot and he did not stop
He reached out and touched a cop.
He may have been looking for a good time
But they charged him with a crime.
Petrarch to Shakespeare, John Milton to John Berryman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to
Longfellow to Langston Hughes — poets across centuries have found the sonnet to be a compelling form of poetic expression.
Garrison Keillor has too. Now eight of his uplifting sonnets — echoing aspects of friendship or
kindness — are printed on quality card stock, each poem paired with a handsome photographic
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Four different poems paired with four different photographs
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Themes: Lost Glasses; Good Workers; Secret of a Good Life; Chairs
Here is the sonnet “Good Workers”
GOOD WORKERS
Here’s to good workers (you know who you are)
Who see the job and do what they can
To stop the leak or fix the car
Or clean house or counsel the troubled man.
Who go at the work straight through
Without complaint and carry the freight,
Who joke around but do what they need to do,
And chaos is cleared and the crooked made straight,
The hygienist polishing our incisors,
Or the guy who does shoe repair,
The ophthalmologist, the financial advisors,
It comforts us to know they are there.
Good workers give us cheerful and peaceable days,
And this is a workmanlike poem in their praise.
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