{"id":18571,"date":"2017-05-26T13:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=18571"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T13:28:58","slug":"yer-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2017\/05\/26\/yer-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Yer Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coversong originally made famous by The Beatles<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yer Blues&#8221; is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, from their titular 1968 album The Beatles, also known as &#8220;The White Album&#8221;. Though credited to Lennon\u2013McCartney, the song was written and composed by John Lennon during the Beatles&#8217; retreat in Rishikesh, India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The song is believed to be a satirical reference to white English boys trying to sing the blues.<\/p>\n<pre>        E                 E7+9\r\nYes I'm lonely wanna die\r\n        A            E\r\nYes I'm lonely wanna die\r\n   G\r\nIf I ain't dead already\r\nB7                            E    A  E  B7\r\nOoh girl you know the reason why.\r\nIn the morning wanna die\r\nIn the evening wanna die\r\nIf I ain't dead already\r\nOoh girl you know the reason why.\r\nE                         A E\r\nMy mother was of the sky\r\nE                         A E\r\nMy father was of the earth\r\nE                         A E\r\nBut I am of the universe\r\nAnd you know what it's worth\r\n\r\nI'm lonely (verse)\r\nThe eagle picks my eye\r\nThe worm he licks my bone\r\nI feel so suicidal\r\nJust like Dylan's Mr. Jones\r\nLonely (verse)\r\n\r\nBlack cloud crossed my mind\r\nBlue mist round my soul\r\nFeel so suicidal\r\nEven hate my rock and roll\r\nWant to die\r\nYeah, want to die\r\nIf I ain't dead already\r\nOh, girl, you know the reason why\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielle.membrane.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Doctor-Please-Doctor-Please\/DR0000_4802-Yer-Blues.mp3\">Yer Blues.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<\/p>\n<p>Vocals, Guitar, Organ<\/p>\n<p>From the album <a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/doctor-please\/\"><strong><em>Doctor Please! Doctor, Please!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[Songs from in doctors&#8217; waiting rooms]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coversong originally made famous by The Beatles &#8220;Yer Blues&#8221; is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, from their titular 1968 album The Beatles, also known as &#8220;The White Album&#8221;. Though credited to Lennon\u2013McCartney, the song was written and composed by John Lennon during the Beatles&#8217; retreat in Rishikesh, India. The song is [&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":[6,1478,14,24],"tags":[1491,89,3599,312,3135,539,556,1281,720,761,781,819],"class_list":["post-18571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-coversongs","category-lyrics","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-alternative-rock","tag-audio","tag-doctor-please","tag-free","tag-john-lennon","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-progressive-rock","tag-rock","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-songs","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571","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=18571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18573,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions\/18573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}