Kansas Girl

A Song of the Western Plains
(A Song of Western Kansas - inside subtitle)

Words and Music: Edith King Rees
Published by W.F. Roehr Music Co. Topeka, Kansas 1922
Source: Personal Collection
MIDI file / NWC file


To a small sod shanty, The mansion of the claim,
Mid the rows of sod corn, A little baby came.
The sun flowers laughed joyously, And told it to the sun;
The winds went singing on their way, And told to ev'ry one,

Chorus:
A Kansas girl is the girl for me, A girl that's bred on the broad prairie,
Where the sun shines far, And the winds blow free,
A Kansas girl is the girl for me.


Where stood that old sod shanty, Stand schools and churches fair,
And that little baby, Is now a woman rare.
She knows the coyotes howling, And she knows a college yell;
She's ev'ry thing a girl should be, And ev'ry where I tell,

Chorus:
A Kansas girl is the girl for me, A girl that's bred on the broad prairie,
Where the sun shines far, And the winds blow free,
A Kansas girl is the girl for me.



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