{"id":20854,"date":"2018-09-09T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=20854"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:09:53","slug":"blue-tail-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2018\/09\/09\/blue-tail-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Tail Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Folk Song<\/p>\n<pre>  G                                  D\r\n When I was young I used to wait\r\n                                 G\r\n On the master and hand him his plate,\r\nG7                                     C\r\nAnd Pass the bottle when he got dry,\r\n        D                        G\r\n And brush away the blue tail fly.\r\n\r\nG                                   D\r\nJimmy crack corn and I don't care,\r\n                              G\r\nJimmy crack corn and I don't care,\r\nG7                                 C\r\nJimmy crack corn and I don't care,\r\n       D              G\r\nMy master's gone away.\r\n\r\nAnd when he ride in the afternoon,\r\nI follow with a hickory broom;\r\nThe pony being very shy,\r\nWhen bitten by the blue tail fly.\r\n\r\nOne day he rode around the farm,\r\nThe flies so numerous they did swarm;\r\nOne chanced to bite him on the thigh.\r\nThe devil take that blue tail fly.\r\n\r\nThe pony run, he jump and pitch,\r\nAnd tumble mater in the ditch;\r\nHe died, and the jury wondered why;\r\nThe verdict was the blue tail fly.\r\n\r\nThey buried him 'neath the sycamore tree -\r\nHis epitaph there for to see:\r\n\"Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie,\r\nThe victim of a blue-tailed Fly.\"\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/daniel-brouse\/Climax\/DR0000_7522-Blue-Tail-Fly.mp3\">Blue Tail Fly.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nStyle: Alternative Folk<br \/>\nRecording: original take \/ live digital 1-track stereo<br \/>\nInstrumentation: Vocals, Guitar<br \/>\nFrom the album <a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/daniel-brouse\/Climax\/\"><strong><em>Climax<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Folk Song G D When I was young I used to wait G On the master and hand him his plate, G7 C And Pass the bottle when he got dry, D G And brush away the blue tail fly. G D Jimmy crack corn and I don&#8217;t care, G Jimmy crack corn and [&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":[6,1478,9,14,24],"tags":[1491,89,3747,272,312,421,487,530,539,556,613,1281,720,761,781,819],"class_list":["post-20854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-coversongs","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-alternative-rock","tag-audio","tag-climax","tag-extemporaneous","tag-free","tag-improv","tag-live","tag-modern","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-original","tag-progressive-rock","tag-rock","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-songs","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854","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=20854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20855,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions\/20855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}