{"id":18025,"date":"2017-03-05T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2017-03-05T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:59:32","slug":"cotton-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2017\/03\/05\/cotton-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coversong made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cotton Fields&#8221; is a song written by American blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first recording of the song in 1940.<\/p>\n<pre> G   N.C.\r\nWhen I was a little 'itty bitty baby\r\n                C                  G\r\nMy momma would rock me in the cradle\r\n                                  D\r\nIn them old... cotton fields back home\r\n         G                              C            G\r\nIt was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana\r\n               D                 G      C\r\nIn them old cotton fields back home\r\n G           C\r\nWhen them cotton balls get rotten\r\n            G\r\nYou can't pick very much cotton\r\n                                D\r\nIn them old cotton fields back home\r\n         G                              C             G\r\nIt was down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana\r\n               D                 G   C   G\r\nIn them old cotton fields back home\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/RESISTANCE\/multimedia\/DR0000_4277-Cotton-Field.mp3\">Cotton Field.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nStyle: Protest Folk Rock<br \/>\nRecording: digital stereo<br \/>\nVocals, Guitar, Faux-fiddle<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/KingArthur.com\/RESISTANCE\">Band together and join THE RESISTANCE<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coversong made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival &#8220;Cotton Fields&#8221; is a song written by American blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first recording of the song in 1940. G N.C. When I was a little &#8216;itty bitty baby C G My momma would rock me in the cradle D [&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":[3367,312,326,539,556,678,3534,1048],"class_list":["post-18025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-coversongs","category-lyrics","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-donald-trump","tag-free","tag-freedom","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-protest","tag-the-resistance","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18027,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions\/18027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}