Dylan’s cheesy Wisconsin song up for auction

Can Bob Dylan really be claimed as "one of us" if he once penned a tribute song to Wisconsin?

Dylan was 20 years old when he penned the song, but never gave it a title.

The song is full of cheesy love, including a reference to "Wow Wow Toaster,” which stumped the people at the auction house that puts the hand-penned song up for auction starting Thursday, Madison.com reports.

It was, apparently, a reference to the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa.

“It’s in pretty good condition,” Michael Kirk, an auction manager, tells the paper. “I’m a music fan, and there’s a sort of energy when you hold a piece like this. It’s powerful to hold.”

Bidding starts at $30,000.

You'll have to come up with your own music to go with it.

(via Madison.com)

1. Wisconson is the dairy state

I guess you all know well

I was in Wow Wow Toaster there

The truth to you I'll tell

It's milk & cheese & cream

I've known 'em all my days

I'm going back to my hometown I'm leaving right aways

2. I'm a heading out Wisconson ways

2000 miles to go

Madison, Milwakee set's my heart aglow

I'm a coming to that dairy state

My heart's a beating fast

I'll jerk my banjo gently there

And twiddle my mustache

3. There's thoughts I left there long ago

One a coming now it seems

I'll tune my banjo than the hills

And feast on milk and cream

And stamp my foot all thru the grass

And never know a care

My homes in Wow Wow Toaster

And I'm a going there''

''1. These people with you city ways

Are driving me insane to drink

My home's in Wisconson it's a better place I think

I've been in California

My home's in Wisconson

And I''m gonna own the town''

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