While Noel and I were in Afton this past Saturday we stopped in an antique store where I found this item. I have never heard of this song before and I can't seem to find anything about it on the internet although I was able to find reference to another song by this songwriter. I found a video clip on YouTube of Meryl Streep performing a song by this name in the Prairie Home Companion movie but it's not the same song. The one in the movie has lyrics set to the tune of Swanee River which, to the best of my knowledge, was written by Stephen Foster and not Lyle Regal. The 1849 centennial is of Minnesota becoming a territory and not a state. Statehood came on May 11, 1858.
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