{"id":6948,"date":"1998-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:00:49","slug":"james-alley-blues-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6948","title":{"rendered":"James Alley Blues, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entrytext\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/NewO.gif\" alt=\"NewO.gif\" height=\"200\" width=\"246\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?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\/JamesA.mp3\">James Alley Blues, The<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">The James Alley Blues is song number 61 in the Harry<br \/>\nSmith Anthology.  It was originally recorded by Richard (Rabbit) Brown<br \/>\nin New Orleans, LA, on March 5, 1927. Brown was one of the first<br \/>\nmusicians to learn the twelve bar blues pattern, and was one of the most<br \/>\n important New Orleans folk singers to record. He was famous for his<br \/>\ndramatic guitar playing, which was similar in style to that of blues<br \/>\nman, Willie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>I have tuned to the key of the original recording which is somewhere<br \/>\nbetween C and C#, and have emulated the tempo, and blues licks Brown<br \/>\nplayed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nD<br \/>\nThe times ain\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt now nothin\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd like they used to be<br \/>\nG                                                                      D<br \/>\nThe times ain\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt now nothin\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd like they used to be<br \/>\nA7                                                                            D<br \/>\nI\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdll tell you the truth; won\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt you take my word from me?<\/p>\n<p>I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdve seen better days, but I ain\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt puttin\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd up with these<br \/>\nI\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdve seen better days, but I ain\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt puttin\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd up with these<br \/>\nI had lot better times with the women down in New Orleans<\/p>\n<p>Cause I was born in the country she thinks I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdm easy to lose<br \/>\nCause I was born in the country she thinks I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdm easy to lose<br \/>\nShe wants to hitch me to a wagon and drive me like a mule<\/p>\n<p>I bought her a gold ring and I paid the rent<br \/>\nI bought her a gold ring and I paid the rent<br \/>\nShe wants me to wash her clothes, but I got good common sense<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt want me then why don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt you just tell me so?<br \/>\nIf you don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt want me then why don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt you just tell me so?<br \/>\nIt ain\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt like a man got nowhere to go<\/p>\n<p>I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt<br \/>\nI give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt<br \/>\nIf you can\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt get along with me, then it\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds you own fault<\/p>\n<p>You want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean<br \/>\nYou want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean<br \/>\nYou\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdre my daily thought; you\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdre my nightly dream<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I just think that you\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdre too sweet to die<br \/>\nSometimes I just think that you\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdre too sweet to die<br \/>\nAnd other times I think you ought to be buried alive<\/p>\n<p>\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd 1998 McGuinn Music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Roger McGuinn\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: James Alley Blues, The The James Alley Blues is song number 61 in the Harry Smith Anthology. It was originally recorded by Richard (Rabbit) Brown in New Orleans, LA, on March 5, 1927. Brown was one of the first musicians to learn the twelve bar blues pattern, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James Alley Blues, The&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948","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=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8436,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions\/8436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}