{"id":51052,"date":"2026-02-17T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51052"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:08:22","slug":"long-in-the-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/02\/17\/long-in-the-tooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Long in the Tooth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Instrumental Intro: Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Percussion]<br \/>\n[Organ, Synth, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nLong in the tooth<br \/>\n(Get back to your youth)<br \/>\n[Instrumental]<br \/>\n[Bass Solo]<br \/>\n[Acoustic Guitar]\t<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWere you high on the hog<br \/>\n(The oyster&#8217;s pearl)<br \/>\nNow way down in a bog<br \/>\n(The boisterous peril)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge &#8211; Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nLong in the tooth<br \/>\n(Get back to your youth)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nRemind (how to be kind)<br \/>\nComes to mind (re-find)<br \/>\nThe wild (in your child)<br \/>\nBack to youth<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge &#8211; Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nAs it&#8217;s sung<br \/>\n(Back to young!)<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nAn ole&#8217; dirty dog<br \/>\n(In need of repair)<br \/>\nThe drain&#8217;s gotta clog<br \/>\n(The wife&#8217;s in despair)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge &#8211; Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nLong in the tooth<br \/>\n(Get back to your youth)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nRemind (how to be kind)<br \/>\nComes to mind (re-find)<br \/>\nThe wild (in your child)<br \/>\nBack to youth<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge &#8211; Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]<br \/>\nAs it&#8217;s sung<br \/>\n(Back to young!)<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Acoustic Guitar]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the thing<br \/>\n(You can come and sing)<br \/>\nBe an unsung young<br \/>\nAs it&#8217;s sung<br \/>\n(Back to young!)<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Acoustic Guitar Solo, Snare March]<br \/>\nCome on and sing<br \/>\n(Back to young)<br \/>\nNew life we&#8217;ll bring<br \/>\n(Back to young)<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Rewilding\/\">Rewilding<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Instrumental Intro: Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Percussion] [Organ, Synth, Spoken Vocal] Long in the tooth (Get back to your youth) [Instrumental] [Bass Solo] [Acoustic Guitar] [Verse 1] Were you high on the hog (The oyster&#8217;s pearl) Now way down in a bog (The boisterous peril) [Bridge [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052","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=51052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51056,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052\/revisions\/51056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}