{"id":6955,"date":"1997-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:07:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:07:53","slug":"wagoners-lad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6955","title":{"rendered":"Wagoner&#8217;s Lad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entrytext\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/wagoner.gif\" alt=\"wagoner.gif\" height=\"200\" width=\"320\"\/><\/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\/wagoner.mp3\">Wagoner&#8217;s Lad<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">Last week, I had the pleasure of performing at a<br \/>\ntribute concert for The Harry Smith Anthology, sponsored by the<br \/>\nSmithsonian, The Folk Alliance, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful night of music and re-acquaintance with old<br \/>\nfriends.  Ella Jenkins was there, whom I hadn&#8217;t seen in over thirty<br \/>\nyears, as well as the New Lost City Ramblers, and new friends, Jeff and<br \/>\nJay from Wilco.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite songs from the Anthology. It&#8217;s one of<br \/>\nthose melodies that stays with you long after you&#8217;ve heard the song.<\/p>\n<p>The original recording is from 1928, by Buell Kazee, with just vocal<br \/>\nand 5-string banjo. I have done it again, keeping the sound as close to<br \/>\nthe original as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The format is interesting; the first verse is by a narrator, the<br \/>\nsecond by the girl, the third by the boy and the fourth and fifth verses<br \/>\n are split between the boy and girl.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s trying to talk the Wagoner&#8217;s Lad into staying with her, and he&#8217;s dead set on leaving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] Oh hard is the [C] fortune of all women [G] kind.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re [D] always [G] controlled, they&#8217;re always [D] confined<br \/>\nControlled by their [G] parents until they are [D] brides<br \/>\nThen [C] slaves to their husbands for the rest of their [G] lives<\/p>\n<p>Oh I am a poor girl, my fortune is sad<br \/>\nI have always been courted by the wagoner&#8217;s lad<br \/>\nHe courted me daily both by night and by day<br \/>\nAnd now he is loaded and going away<\/p>\n<p>Your parents don&#8217;t like me because I am poor<br \/>\nThey say I&#8217;m not worthy of entering your door<br \/>\nI work for my living, my money&#8217;s my own<br \/>\nAnd if they don&#8217;t like me they can leave me alone<\/p>\n<p>Your horses are hungry, go feed them some hay<br \/>\nCome sit down beside me as long as you may<br \/>\nMy horses ain&#8217;t hungry, they won&#8217;t eat your hay<br \/>\nSo fare thee well darling, I&#8217;ll be on my way<\/p>\n<p>Your wagon needs greasing, your whip&#8217;s for to mend<br \/>\nCome sit down beside me as long as you can<br \/>\nMy wagon is greasy, my whip&#8217;s in my hand<br \/>\nSo fare thee well, darling, no longer to stand<br \/>\n\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: Wagoner&#8217;s Lad Last week, I had the pleasure of performing at a tribute concert for The Harry Smith Anthology, sponsored by the Smithsonian, The Folk Alliance, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was a wonderful night of music and re-acquaintance with old friends. Ella Jenkins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6955\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wagoner&#8217;s Lad&#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":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955","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=6955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}