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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Random Question - Sweet Caroline |
| Date | Fri, 08 Oct 2004 03:18:30 -0500 |
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:21:25 +0000
From: erhoek@comcast.net
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Random Question- Sweet Caroline
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It takes place in rural Wisconsin.
"Sweet Caroline" is the unofficial anthem of Wisconsin deer-hunting season.
When deer season opens, jukeboxes in taverns from Peshtigo to Platteville,
from Sheboygan to Hayward (home of the world's largest muskie statue), burst
forth with the words, "When it began ... I can't begin to knowin'".
Neil Diamond, you see, is the unofficial master troubador and poet laureate
of the Wisconsin hunting community. It's not at all unusual to hear
rough-hewn men in blaze orange, heretofore spent after a long day in the
tree stands and trailing along the creek bottoms, troop in from the cold and
belly up to the bar with their comrades while singing a lusty chorus of
"Longfellow Serenade". And many's the time I've passed a late-model Chevy
pickup on a rural Wisconsin highway that had a twelve-point buck trussed up
in the back and "Cracklin' Rosie" or "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" wafting
forth out of the cab.
Gregory Sager
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