The Eleanor Polka

Verse 1 in memory of Eleanor furth

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Where the Minnesota River, runs through the Sioux hunting ground

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The Germans came to settle, and called their town New Ulm

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A Henle girl got married, to a boy named Furth

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And soon they had six children who have spread across this earth

CHORUS

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Eleanor is a hundred today, we're gonna dance the night away

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And count our blessings while we can, Eleanor is a Centennarian

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She's as strong as she can be, she lit the way for us all to see

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She taught us how to hope and pray, Eleanor is a hundred today!

VERSE 2

Through the wars and weary winters, she kept us warm with love

The scrapes, the scars, the splinters, were healed by her faith in God above

And as the years roll by us, He waits at heaven's door...

To welcome home an angel, who's name is Eleanor...REPEAT CHORUS

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