Audience, Garrison Keillor. Robin and Linda Williams,
My Country Tis of Thee ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) How Great Thou Art ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) I Saw Her Standing There ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) Doxology ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) Old Lovers Waltz (Robin and Linda Williams ) A Better Day A-Coming (Robin and Linda Williams ) In My Life (Robin and Linda Williams ) For Better or Worse (Robin and Linda Williams ) When I Wake Up to Sleep No More ( Garrison Keillor , Robin and Linda Williams ) Together All Alone (Robin and Linda Williams ) Goodnight Ladies ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) Ol' Man River ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) Battle Hymn of the Republic ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) Amen ( Garrison Keillor , Audience ) Good-bye to our town (Robin and Linda Williams ) Crossing the Bar (Robin and Linda Williams ) I bid you goodnight ( Garrison Keillor , Robin and Linda Williams ) America the Beautiful ( Garrison Keillor , Audience )
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Giving eulogies for friends. Gave one for best friend, Norm. Norm always had a joke to tell. Asked to give a eulogy for classmate Ronny Hensen, who he never liked. His father was the town drunk and school bus driver. Ronny was an airline pilot for United Airlines. After he retired he had girlfriends across the world. The last time he saw Ronny was at the urinal at a class reunion. Ronny died in Fort Lauderdale when his car slipped on bananas going to see his girlfriend. GK invented a story about Ronny helping orphans, but no one would believe it. So, he recited Mary Oliver's Wild Geese. Asked to give a eulogy for Peter Flanagan, who had gone to Texas and joined Norse Enforcers militia group and participated in January 6. Recited a poem - a mix of Emily Dickinson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Shakespeare, Best funeral was that of Aunt Evelyn. Pontoon story with Bruno the Fishing Dog, twins and the duck decoys, and Pastor Liz welcoming 24 Lutheran pastors,
GK talks about his parents falling in love, being Sanctified Brethren, Julie Christensen asking him to wrestle, reading limericks in the school library, his recent surgery that saved someone from having to do a eulogy. His legacy is that he brought immature jokes and gospel music to public radio. "My eulogy is that I brought to public radio The Young Man of Madras, and the lightning, and I also brought How Great Thou Art, and I love them both."
GK wrote in Post to the Host, "I did a show in Michigan with Robin and Linda on Saturday night and we sang some gospel songs and Iris DeMent’s gorgeous “Our Town” and the Tennyson poem “Crossing The Bar.” The kids are in fine shape. It was a good singing crowd."
Archival contributors: C. Wahl