{"id":50324,"date":"2026-01-23T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50324"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:55:20","slug":"draggin-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/01\/23\/draggin-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Draggin&#8217; the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy James Coversong<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nMakin&#8217; a livin&#8217; the old hard way<br \/>\nTakin&#8217; and givin&#8217; by day by day<br \/>\nI dig snow and rain and the bright sunshine<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nMy dog Sam eats purple flowers<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t got much, but what we got&#8217;s ours<br \/>\nWe dig snow and rain and the bright sunshine<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nI feel fine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout peace of mind<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna take my time<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gettin&#8217; the good sign<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nLovin&#8217; a free and feelin&#8217; spirit<br \/>\nOf huggin&#8217; a tree when you get near it<br \/>\nDiggin&#8217; the snow and the rain and the bright sunshine<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nI feel fine<br \/>\nI&#8217;m talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout peace of mind<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna take my time<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gettin&#8217; the good sign<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line) (La-la la-la la-la la-la)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line) (La-la la-la la-la la)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line) (La-la la-la la-la la-la)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line) (La-la la-la la-la la)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line) (La-la la-la la-la la-la)<br \/>\nDraggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line) (La-la la-la la-la la)<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/the-times\/\">The Times<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy James Coversong [Verse 1] Makin&#8217; a livin&#8217; the old hard way Takin&#8217; and givin&#8217; by day by day I dig snow and rain and the bright sunshine [Refrain] Draggin&#8217; the line (Draggin&#8217; the line) [Verse 2] My dog Sam eats purple flowers Ain&#8217;t got much, but what we got&#8217;s ours We dig snow 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":[3945,1478],"tags":[4201],"class_list":["post-50324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-coversongs","tag-the-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50324","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=50324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50329,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50324\/revisions\/50329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}