SHE'S ALASKA QUEEN (To the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")

I wrote this to celebrate my mom being the 2026 Alaska Pioneers Queen Regent 

SHE'S ALASKA QUEEN

(To the tune of "I've Been Everywhere")

President Johnson's Great Society needed one more VISTA volunteer

A cheechako from Chicago to escape the heat in the last frontier

Looking for adventure, she raised her hand to apply

That's how she found herself in a sea plane up in the sky

She hardly flinched when they landed underwater -- and

She said "Listen, I'm here to plant my roots in this here land"

She's Alaska Queen, ma'am

Linda Kay Keen, ma'am

Since 1965, ma'am

Lived Alaska live, ma'am

No place she ain't been, ma'am

She's Alaska Queen

Float plane to...

Kotzebue, Dillingham, Shaktoolik and Togiak

Adopted kids in Sitka, Fairbanks, and Kodiak

Gold rushed Shungnak, Kobuk and, Tanana

Couldn't eat the eyeball in the fish soup in Kiana

Snow machines, Wainright, Galena, Big Lake

Kotlik, Chugiak, Coldfoot -- for Pete's sake!

She's Alaska Queen, ma'am

Tundra, glacier, stream, ma'am

Bright like northern lights, ma'am

Soared Denali heights, ma'am

No place she ain't been, ma'am

She's Alaska Queen

She cashed her...

PFD in Port Lions, Akhiak and Pilot Point

Laughed with her friend Kathy from Soldotna down to Anchor Point

Chilkoot's, Bird House, Salty Dawg, Skinny Dick's

Hypothermic freezing chased by wolves near Selawik

Snow machine to Point Hope, Anvik and Cold Bay

Bunny boots and fur ruff parka nearly every day!

She's Alaska Queen, ma'am

Lived the northern dream, ma'am

Breathed the mountain air, ma'am

Fought the polar bear, ma'am

No place she ain't been, ma'am

She's Alaska Queen

She lived off...

Chena Pump Road in Fairbanks, on Linda Lane

Anaktuvuk Pass with her husband and a couple babes

Kodiak, Homer, Anchorage, raised three

Education master, twelve years at Jesse Lee

Lake Otis and Tudor, Tudor Top, Tudor Hills

53rd, Anchor Park, Tudor School -- all the feels!

She's Alaska Queen, ma'am

Lady on the scene, ma'am

Hiked the Chilkoot Trail, ma'am

The crown is not for sale, ma'am

Mushed Iditarod, ma'am

Subaru hot rod, ma'am

Lives in Anchorage, ma'am

Seal oil in her fridge, ma'am

No place she ain't been, ma'am

She's Alaska Queen