{"id":27237,"date":"2021-12-07T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=27237"},"modified":"2021-12-07T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:29:14","slug":"its-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2021\/12\/07\/its-for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s for the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS<br \/>\nThe cost of the &#8220;12 Days of Christmas&#8221;<br \/>\nIs getting absurd<br \/>\n(In case you hadn&#8217;t heard)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s for the birds<br \/>\n7 swans a swimming<br \/>\n6 geese a laying<br \/>\n2 turtle doves<br \/>\nAnd a partridge in a pear tree*<\/p>\n<p>*Pear tree not included<br \/>\n**All scenery excluded<br \/>\n***It&#8217;s for the birds<\/p>\n<p>You can try, try, try<br \/>\nYou can cry, cry, cry<br \/>\nBut the price of the birds<br \/>\nHas gone sky high<br \/>\nInflation elevation<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s for the birds<br \/>\nHadn&#8217;t you heard?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Spirit-of-Christmas\/videos\/Its%20for%20the%20Birds.mp4\"> Its for the Birds.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Spirit-of-Christmas\/DR0000_7678-Its%20for%20the%20Birds.mp3\"> DR0000_7678-Its for the Birds.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Spirit-of-Christmas\/MIDI\/Its%20for%20the%20Birds.MID\">Its for the Birds.MID<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nThe song was inspired by the 2021 cost of the &#8220;12 Days of Christmas&#8221;. The annual survey concluded &#8220;Even &#8216;The 12 Days of Christmas&#8217; is being slammed by inflation&#8221;. &#8220;PNC\u2019s annual Christmas Price Index, which totals out the current cost of the gifts in the holiday song &#8220;The 12 Days of Christmas,&#8221; has been published\u2014and all of those birds in the song come at a hefty price. Two turtle doves will cost you 50% more this year, coming in at $450. Those three French hens? That\u2019s up 40.5% to $255. And the six geese-a-laying saw prices soar 51% in the past year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chords: F#9 F# \/ B F# \/ C# walkdown riff; 166 BPM<br \/>\nRecording: digital 8-track stereo<br \/>\nInstrumentation: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/\">Christmas 2021 album<\/a> of music <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/xmas\/Spirit-of-Christmas\/\"><strong><em>Spirit of Christmas<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS The cost of the &#8220;12 Days of Christmas&#8221; Is getting absurd (In case you hadn&#8217;t heard) It&#8217;s for the birds 7 swans a swimming 6 geese a laying 2 turtle doves And a partridge in a pear tree* *Pear tree not included **All scenery excluded ***It&#8217;s for the birds You can try, try, try [&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],"tags":[528,546,563,3884],"class_list":["post-27237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-christmas-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-midi","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-spirit-of-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27237","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=27237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27242,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27237\/revisions\/27242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}