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 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, I will go with you, leave Wisconsin behind Though my parents think little of my life on a farm Oh, to leave the gay city life to be buried on a farm But I’ll watch the orchards bloom in spring, spend the winters warm in your arms Three children he gave her: 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 ’em through troubled times, Agnes strong-willed and kind Now threescore years have gone and passed, like the fruit on the trees And her children have children with babes on their knees And they all join in the summertime, on the crystal lake shore To greet lovely Agnes, now twelve years and four-score