Part I: "The Great Frontier"


I count the days the Great Frontier

Forgiving, faced the seventh year

I stand in awe of gratefulness

I can and call forgetfulness


And when I, and when I call

The Patient, the Patient fall

The Spirit, the Carpenter

Invites us to be with her


What have we become America?

Soldiers on the Great Frontier!

Carpenter and Soldier, one on one

It's the battle, volunteer!


Run from yourself, from your friends, from ya--

Run for your life, for your friends, for ya--

American, merica, meri--

Oh Illinois, Illinois, Illi--


The prairie, the frontier, the perfect farm, it's from here

The fortress, the faker, the cornerstone, the baker

The dancer, the fisher, audition and the disher

The boxer, the fetcher, the ghweing gum, dream catcher


I count the days the Great Frontier

Forgiving, faced the seventh year

I stand and strain to make ends meet

Five Spirits on the Grand Marquee


And when I, and when I call

The Patient, the Patient fall

The Spirit, the Carpenter

Invites us to be with her


There was a man at the wall

He was grateful for us all

I saw the Wise Woman sing

She wasn't asking anything

She wasn't asking anything

How she made the nations sing!


What have we become America?

Soldiers on the Great Frontier!


Run from yourself,

from your friends, from ya--

Run for your life,

for your friends, for ya--

American, merica, meri--

Oh Illinois, Illinois, Illi--


The mattress, the floozies, the actress at the movies

The lantern, the lotion, the wind that wakes the ocean

The Standard Edition, the architect's rendition

The fashion, the fevers, the house we got at Sears


Part II: "Come to Me Only With Playthings Now"


Oh Great Fire of Great Disaster

Oh Great Heaven, oh Great Master

Oh Great Goat, the curse you gave us

Oh Great Ghost, protect and save us

Oh Great River, green with envy

Oh Jane Addams, spirit send thee

Oh Great Trumpet and the singers

(Given what you lost are you better off?)

Oh Great Goodman, King of Swingers

(Given what you had, has it made you mad?)

Oh Great Bears and Bulls, Joe Jackson

(Celebrate the few. Celebrate the new.)

Oh Great Illinois

(It can only start with you)


(Thanks to Tim for these lyrics)