"The Day They Blew Up the Bog," is a story about the dynamiting of bogs that had floated down the Fox River into Oshkosh in the early 1900s. Music style: folk

They blew up the bog
because the water wouldn't flow.
They blew up the bog
because the boats wouldn't go.
They blew up the bog
because the people didn't know....

When I was young, around the age of three,
my grandpa set me on his knee,
and these words he spoke to me.
He said, "As you look out upon this river,
and reflection of golden tones of silver
You may fail to see its great history.

"Way back when, in the day
before television had its way,
around the dawn of the automobile.
After years and years of poverty,
industry fueled the economy
into a time of coal and steel.

"Towns sprang up all along the shores.
The boats all traded in their oars
for the sound of a steam engine holler.
Well, we were thankful for the goods we had
but sometime you take the good with the bad,
and so we traded in our rivers for the dollar.

(CHORUS repeated)

"We needed to get supplies downstream,
but there were miles of white rapids in between
and a ton of floating bog along the way.
So in order to make the steamboats go,
they dammed the rivers and let it overflow,
and all that bog washed away.

"The current moved the bog down south,
and tons of it clogged the mouth
of the rivers where the two rivers meet the Winnebago.
All the towns with all their men,
came up with a brilliant plan
and decided that the bog had to go.

"So they filled the bog up with dynamite,
and to this day I've never seen such a sight
as the day that the river went ka-boom.
One thing they failed to realize
is that all the animals the bog housed inside,
they became forever doomed."

(CHORUS repeated)