Abraham John Waian (1944-2012)<\/p>\n
John Waian was his show name
\npronounced John Wayne he liked
\nthe joke\/confusion, i first heard him
\nplaying your song on Cinco de Mayo
\nin nineteen eighty one
\nfor a street dance celebration<\/p>\n
John was a regular at the Drifter
\nuntil they banned Rock n Roll
\n(we rock’n’rollers didn’t drink enough)
\noh Sloopy, wish you’d have heard him
\nsinging “Take another little piece of my heart”
\nand seen him, between lights and stage smoke
\nending Janis’ song on bended knee<\/p>\n
he asked me to dance and we did
\nfor a few months and here, now
\nare the stories he told me:<\/p>\n
Hang on Sloopy:
\nyou were the girl next door
\n(both pre-teens)
\nwith a mother who dressed you
\npretty, with a long pony tail
\nwhen sitting side by side he asked
\nyou to let your hair down, you did
\nhe softly cuffed his hands
\nand fluffed the ends and oh
\nit made him feel So good
\nhe wrote this song for you<\/p>\n
Fever:
\na teenage boy in love with his teacher<\/p>\n
If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Wanna Be Right:
\na 16 year old babysitter…
\nhe had two little children, a wife
\nand included her in family outings
\nto a California beach, he told me
\nhis desire for you was only to look
\nnot touch, but his wife asked who
\nthe song was about – he told
\nshe divorced him for this, said she<\/p>\n
when John died one month and one day ago
\ni googled his name with Sloopy to sadly find
\ncredits for his songs live elsewhere
\ndon’t know
\nif he lied or sold his copyrights
\nit don’t matter to me
\nit don’t matter to him now<\/p>\n
R.I.P. John Abraham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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