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    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance
    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance
    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance
    Audiobook2 hours

    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance

    Written by Garrison Keillor

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    About this audiobook

    Here's the last weekly live broadcast that started it all-the glorious tradition of saying goodbye. The final performance (June 13, 1987) brought Garrison Keillor and guests together for sweet music, sparkling wit, and the latest "News from Lake Wobegon."

    Contents: Hello Love; Loves Old Sweet Song; Garrison Talks of Leaving; Tell Me Why; Jitterbug Waltz; The Storms Are on the Ocean; Powdermilk Biscuit Spot; How Can I Keep from Singing?; Songs of Parting; Greetings; Roy Blount Poem; I'll See You in My Dreams; Brownie and Pete; Spring Poem; Crow River Waltz; Buster the Show Dog; Oh Susanna; America the Beautiful; Adventures in Paradise; Aloha Oe; Intermission Medley; Stars Stripes Forever; Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Sons of Knute Fishing March; News From Lake Wobegon; Sleepwalk, Eskray Love Lilt; Til Then; The Minstrel Show; Hawaii Aloha; Fool Such as I; One More Spring; Till We Meet Again; Songs of the Exiles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJul 29, 2008
    ISBN9781598879995
    A Prairie Home Companion: The Final Performance

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