{"id":771,"date":"2008-12-20T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2009-12-19T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T15:17:27","slug":"wide-awake-in-weyauwega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wide-awake-in-weyauwega\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide Awake in Weyauwega"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brush with death<\/a><\/strong> on the Wolf River was the inspiration for a country song I wrote once. It’s the story of a guy whose wife leaves him just as the river is starting to freeze up, and the question he fears to ask: Did she even make it to the other side? The compulsion of Wisconsonites to start place names with Ws — Weyauwega, Waupaca, Wauwatosa, Winnebago, Winneconne, etc. — dictated the alliteration in the refrain.<\/p>\n

WIDE AWAKE IN WEYAUWEGA<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 1991, F.R. Duplantier<\/p>\n

It was early in December
\nWhen the ice was still quite thin
\nThat my love lit out and left me
\nAnd never came back again.<\/p>\n

That’s why I’m wide awake
\nIn Weyauwega,
\nWondering what went wrong.
\nYes, I’m wide awake
\nin Weyauwega,
\nWishing you’d come home.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cold snap hit right after she left
\nAnd the river froze good and hard,
\nSo I’d cross each day to check the box,
\nBut she never sent a card.<\/p>\n

That’s why, ETC.<\/em><\/p>\n

The days are getting longer
\nAnd the ice is breaking free.
\nStill no word from the one I love —
\nWill she ever come back to me?<\/p>\n

That’s why, ETC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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