Viljo and Elsa

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Viljo left home on a warm day in May
To cross the Atlantic on a ship called Montcalm
He got up real early and left right away
For a far and new country to miss the coming storm
The S.S. was rising with eyes on The North
Karelia would burn like red from The East
The Winter War would consume all his friends
And Viljo was leaving to start his great dream
Elsa arrived on the grand Dottingholm
On December 19, 1926
Viljo and Elsa met in Toronto
The meeting place of treaties and lies
They were butler and cook for a kind, rich family
In the new land in Dale of The Rose
It’s 1939 and from time to time
The newspapers report from the war back home
Viljo would clip them and store them in a drawer
And my Father has saved them all of his life
Now I’m looking at a picture of four Finnish women
Sent to The Front to bring aid and supplies
I stole that last line from the picture’s caption
But I can’t imagine how it was in the action
So I’ll just write this song to always remember
That Viljo and Elsa gave us something better
Through their sons William and Osmo
Grandkids Trevor, Eldon, Esko and Brett
Jason, myself and the youngest Chris
It’s certainly the best thing that I have known yet
Now I’m walking down on Widmer Street
Where Viljo started the city’s first Sauna
Now it’s shadowed by a cinematic castle
And I’m writing this story to show on that screen

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from F105, released July 27, 2018

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