{"id":26174,"date":"2021-06-28T18:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=26174"},"modified":"2021-06-28T18:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:38:05","slug":"were-an-american-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2021\/06\/28\/were-an-american-band\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re an American Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coversong originally made famous by Grand Funk Railroad<br \/>\nWritten by Don Brewer<\/p>\n<pre>D C Bb C D   D D C G DD Bb\nD\nOut on the road for forty days \nC                          G           D\nLast night in Little Rock, put me in a haze \nD\nSweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act \n    C                               D\nShe had the whole show and that's a natural fact \nG                 D\nUp all night with Freddie King \n  C                D\nI got to tell you, poker's his thing \nG                 D\nBooze and ladies, keep me right \n   F                             G\nAs long as we can make it to the show tonight \n          D\nWe're an American band \n          C\nWe're an American band \n             Bb\nWe're comin' to your town \n               C\nWe'll help you party it down \n          D\nWe're an American band \nD D C G DD Bb\nFour young chiquitas in Omaha \nWaitin' for the band to return from the show \nA feelin' good, feelin' right and it's Saturday night \nThe hotel detective, he was outta sight \nNow these fine ladies, they had a plan \nThey was out to meet the boys in the band \nThey said, \"Come on dudes, let's get it on!\" \nAnd we proceeded to tear that hotel down \n\n(chorus) We're an American band -- break --- repeat chorus<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Live-On-The-Lake\/DR0000_6338-Were-an-American-Band.mp3\">DR0000_6338-Were-an-American-Band.mp3<\/a> (Unplugged \/ Live on the Lake)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coversong originally made famous by Grand Funk Railroad Written by Don Brewer D C Bb C D D D C G DD Bb D Out on the road for forty days C G D Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze D Sweet, sweet Connie was doin&#8217; her act C D She [&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":[3870],"class_list":["post-26174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-coversongs","category-lyrics","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-live-on-the-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174","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=26174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26175,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions\/26175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}