When I Get Home: Songs

Written by Garrison Keillor

Narrated by Guy's All Star Shoe Band

You've heard Garrison Keillor and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band perform on the radio. Now you can enjoy their feel-good music on this collection.A Prairie Home Companionlisteners are frequently treated to a song-sometimes to a familiar tune, sometimes to original music-with words by Garrison Keillor. In them, he sings of home, love, friendship, family, faith, or just plain fun. These sixteen songs, specially recorded for this collection, are some of his best.“I carry this solemn mug around in public to encourage strangers to mind their manners, but when I get home I am glad to make faces, quack like a duck, dance a little dance, and even sing a little. For many years now I have felt at home on the radio. These are some of the songs.”-Garrison Keillor Tracks: 1. What Floats Your Boat 2. My Grandfather's Clock 3. My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose 4. Homestead on the Farm 5. Everybody Knows It 6. Home on the Range 7. Boy's Best Friend 8. Frankie and Johnny 9. What'll I Do 10. Old Backstage 11. There Once Was a Shy Young Man 12. My Minnesota Home 13. Nearer My God to Thee 14. Only for You 15. Goodbye to My Uncles 16. Tell My Ma

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Jun 12, 2006
• ISBN: 9781598874044

Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.