I believe these whimsical songs were compiled by Queengie, but most come from another book compiled by her nephew Scott Thomas Lyman and his wife Lyn.
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Niklovis Family Songs We Sang and Still Sing
Going through the box of books, letters, papers that Queengie left when she passed, I saw various books with the word of Niklovis in the title. I had thought it was a family from Moab, or friends, and couldn't understand why their songs were so important to Queengie. After asking Paula if she knew what Niklovis was, she told her daughter Leigh that they were songs that she and her sisters would sing. The forward written by Queengie at the beginning of this book describes it even more what it is. One part that really stood out to me was that Platte D Lyman and his wife Adelia were very poor. So poor, in fact, that it caused three of their small children to die from malnutrition. That is so heartbreaking to me. When he would go on trips for his Church calling, he would promise to come home with a gift. The gifts were songs. Queengie said they were songs that have survived for five or six generations and would like to keep them alive. So here is on...
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