{"id":15599,"date":"2015-12-23T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=15599"},"modified":"2015-12-23T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:24:34","slug":"up-on-the-rooftop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2015\/12\/23\/up-on-the-rooftop\/","title":{"rendered":"Up On The Rooftop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS<br \/>\n[knock, knock]<br \/>\nI swore I heard a knock at the door<br \/>\nWhen I went to explore<br \/>\nI found they were no more<br \/>\nThere was no body<br \/>\nNobody was there<\/p>\n<p>It was the strangest thing<br \/>\nI heard the doorbell ring<br \/>\nThought maybe it was some carolers coming to sing<br \/>\nThe strangest thing<br \/>\nWhen I answered the door<br \/>\nThey were no more<br \/>\nThere was no body there<br \/>\nNobody<\/p>\n<p>[knock, knock]<br \/>\nWho is it?<\/p>\n<p>Up on the rooftop<br \/>\nMost baffling<br \/>\nHearing the strangest thing<br \/>\nLike 8 little reindeer hoof<br \/>\nWhen I say little&#8230; they weren&#8217;t really that little&#8230; but compared to the roof<br \/>\n8 reindeer hoofs&#8230; 8 x 4&#8230; maybe even more<br \/>\nIf ya count the one rednosed one<br \/>\nSo I arose<br \/>\nTrying to be on my toes<br \/>\nI suppose&#8230;<br \/>\nOut of curiosity<br \/>\nI had to see<br \/>\nIf there was anybody there<br \/>\nSome body<br \/>\nSomebody<br \/>\nComing down the chimney<br \/>\nI had to see<br \/>\n&#8217;cause I&#8217;d heard<br \/>\nIt was a tradition<br \/>\nAnd, I was just itching<br \/>\nTo find out if this tradition was just fiction<br \/>\nOr, if there was just a sliver of truth<br \/>\nBecause if it could be true for me<br \/>\nMaybe it could be true for you, too<br \/>\nSo I had to see what this clutter was&#8230; this clutter of clatter<br \/>\nIf it &#8217;twas the spirit of Christmas<br \/>\nIs that no body somebody<br \/>\nHard to put my finger on it<br \/>\nThis Christmas spirit<br \/>\nBut, I tell ya I hear it<br \/>\nUp on the rooftop<br \/>\nYes, I suppose when I arose<br \/>\nI just had to look in the right place<br \/>\nIf I wanted to see the Christmas spirit&#8217;s face<br \/>\nIt was right in front of me the whole time<br \/>\nAnd, here I am searching high and low<br \/>\nAt least now I know<\/p>\n<p>Up on the rooftop<br \/>\nWhy not?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielle.membrane.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Christmas-That-Time-Of-Year\/DR0000_2366-Up-On-The-Rooftop.mp3\">Up On The Rooftop.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nStyle: ExperiMental Music<br \/>\nChords: F# D# G# F#<br \/>\nRhythm: 134 Beats Per Minute \/ Ambient #3 and Big Band #1<br \/>\nRecording: 1-track digital stereo<\/p>\n<p>Daniel &#8212; Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)<\/p>\n<p>From the album <a href=\"http:\/\/danielle.membrane.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Christmas-That-Time-Of-Year\/\"><strong><em>That Time Of Year<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby <a href=\"\/\">Daniel Brouse<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/\">More from the Christmas Album<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS [knock, knock] I swore I heard a knock at the door When I went to explore I found they were no more There was no body Nobody was there It was the strangest thing I heard the doorbell ring Thought maybe it was some carolers coming to sing The strangest thing When I answered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,9,14,1551],"tags":[3382,198,2687,3109,269,272,312,2893,458,539,556,613,998,3383,720,2365,3380,759,781,782,3326,2260,3325,897],"class_list":["post-15599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-christmas-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-the-electric-slugs","tag-christmas-spirit","tag-daniel-brouse","tag-edm","tag-elctronic-dance-music","tag-experimental","tag-extemporaneous","tag-free","tag-holiday-music","tag-keyboards","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-original","tag-psychedelic","tag-reindeer","tag-rock","tag-rock-music","tag-santa-claus","tag-singer","tag-songs","tag-songwriter","tag-streaming-music","tag-synthesizers","tag-that-time-of-year","tag-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15608,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions\/15608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}