Education and Inspiration through the ancient art of storytelling!
El-a-noy
(This traditional folksong was popular in the early 1800's and was used by land speculators to help sell land in this fertile state, our first unofficial anthem:)
Way down upon the Wabash
Such land was never known
If Adam had passed over it
the soil he’d surely own
He’d think it was the garden
he played in as a boy
and straight pronounce it Eden
in the state of El-a-noy
So move your family westward
good health you will enjoy
and rise to wealth and honor
in the state of Illinois
T’was here the queen of Sheba
came with Solomon of old
With an ass load full of spices
pomegranates and fine gold
and when he saw this lovely land
her heart was filled with joy
and straight away she said
I’d like to be
the queen of El-a-noy
So move your family westward
good health you will enjoy
and rise to wealth and honor
in the state of Illinois
She’s bounded by the Wabash,
the Ohio and the Lakes,
She’s crawfish in the swampy lands,
the milk sick and the shakes.
But these are slight diversions,
and take not from the joy
of living in this garden land
the state of El-a-noy.
So move your family westward
good health you will enjoy
and rise to wealth and honor
in the state of Illinois
A way up in the north land,
right on the borderline
a great commercial city,
Chicago you will find.
Her men are all like Abelard,
Her women like Heloise,
all honest virtuous people,
‘cause they live in El-a-noy
So move your family westward
good health you will enjoy
and rise to wealth and honor
in the state of Illinois
So move your family westward
Bring all your girls and boys
And cross at Shawnee ferry
in the state of Illinois
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