Immigrants’ Kingdom: Giants in the Earth

All the songs are authentic to the characters, Scandinavian folk tunes and traditional melodies.
Based on the immigrant novel by Ole Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth.

Stage musical about homesteaders, set in Minnesota and Dakota Territory, 1873-1875.

Act 1, Scene 1

A captain, I, and this, my boat,

Rich fishing lies ahead.

I’ll sail through waves of golden wheat

And grow my family’s bread.

The corn will soar and then grow more,

Potatoes flooding in the dirt,

And then we’ll build our church.

Act 2, Scene 5

It’s time for us to go back home.

There’s nothing here for us now.

You’ll feel alive on ocean foam,

Fighting with sails, not a plow.

Soon we’ll sail through our happy fjord,

Back where our spirits always soared,

There where our home was like heaven.