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Oh, Agnes, won't you go with me? We'll be married in style
And we'll cross Lake Michigan, so blue and so wild.
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 married on a farm,
And we'll watch the orchards bloom in spring, spend the winter's warm in your arms.
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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.
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Now the years have gone and past, 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.
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