{"id":6917,"date":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6917","title":{"rendered":"Stewball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Stewball.jpg\" height=\"163\" width=\"422\" alt=\"Stewball.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Stewball.mp3\">Stewball<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">This is the original text of Stewball from an early printed version that appeared in an American song book dated 1829.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime around 1790 a race took place on the curragh of Kildare (near Dublin) between a skewbald horse owned by Sir Arthur Marvel and &#039;Miss Portly&#039;, a gray mare owned by Sir Ralph Gore. The race seemed to take the balladmakers&#039; fancies, and must have been widely sung.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] Stewball was a good horse<br \/>\nHe wore a high [Am] head<br \/>\nAnd the mane on his [D] foretop<br \/>\nWas fine as silk [G] thread<\/p>\n<p>I rode him in England<br \/>\nI rode him in Spain<br \/>\nHe never did lose, boys<br \/>\nHe always did gain<\/p>\n<p>So come all you gamblers<br \/>\nWherever you are<br \/>\nAnd don&#039;t bet your money<br \/>\nOn that little grey mare<\/p>\n<p>Most likely she&#039;ll stumble<br \/>\nMost likely she&#039;ll fall<br \/>\nBut you never will lose, boys<br \/>\nOn my noble Stewball<\/p>\n<p>As they were a-riding<br \/>\n&#039;Bout halfway around<br \/>\nThat grey mare she stumbled<br \/>\nAnd fell to the ground<\/p>\n<p>And away out yonder<br \/>\nAhead of them all<br \/>\nCame a prancin&#039; and a dancin&#039;<br \/>\nMy noble Stewball\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Stewball This is the original text of Stewball from an early printed version that appeared in an American song book dated 1829. Sometime around 1790 a race took place on the curragh of Kildare (near Dublin) between a skewbald horse owned by Sir Arthur Marvel and &#039;Miss Portly&#039;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stewball&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8484,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}