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Happiness Fulfilled

from Songs to Get You From Here to There by Wes Weddell

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An ode to the great Virgin Mary/grilled cheese apparition - and the 'theme song' to the 2005 Seattle Poetry Festival

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Diane Duyser opened wide
And shoved Our Lady deep inside
But mercy overtook her like the plague
To see the light in shining whitebread
Sets a body right to holler:
"Lordy, Hallelujah, I am saved!"

Had she made tomato soup
She might've witnessed Guadalupe
Bidding her to part with evil ways
Or boiled herself a pot of okra
Overseen by saintly Oprah
Touching lives and saving souls each day

Every earthly sinner knows that
Cheese improves with age:
Hard or soft or pasteurized or grilled
Ten years in a plastic box
Kept Round-Yon-Virgin-Mother sharp
And Diane Duyser's happiness fulfilled

A gentle voice came on the wind
Followed by a grave Amen
Saying: "If you post it, it will sell"
And twenty-eight-K later
It's renowned in all the papers
For its journey to that old American well

As our grand Velveeta Chalice
Heads off to that Golden Palace
All who she has visited are changed
So, trust your spirit and your will
And bust out that George Foreman grill
Lordy, Hallelujah, we are saved!

Every earthly sinner knows that
Cheese improves with age:
Hard or soft or pasteurized or grilled
Ten years in a plastic box
Kept Virgin Mary Queso sharp
And Diane Duyser's happiness fulfilled

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from Songs to Get You From Here to There, released December 6, 2006
WW: guitar, vocals, mandolin, bass

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Wes Weddell Seattle, Washington

For the past twenty years, Wes Weddell has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. "Always heartfelt and well-constructed" ("Seattle Weekly"), listeners have come to expect Weddell's songs to "speak for themselves" ("No Depression"). ... more

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