{"id":7019,"date":"2004-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-19T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:35:09","slug":"oh-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7019","title":{"rendered":"Oh Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Folkden_Podcast_Art.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"220\"\/><\/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\/freedom.mp3\">Oh Freedom<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This is a great old spiritual. I recorded it during a thunder storm in Florida and decided to leave the thunder on the track to give it more ambiance. Freedom is often taken for granted, but is sorely missed when it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Juneteenth!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G]Oh freedom [D]Oh freedom [G]Oh freedom [D]over me<br \/>\n[G] And before I&#8217;ll be a [Em] slave, [C] I&#8217;ll be burried in my [Am] grave<br \/>\n[G] And go home to my [D] Lord and be [G] free<\/p>\n<p>[G]No more moanin&#8217; [D]No more moanin'[G]No more moanin&#8217; [D]over me<br \/>\n[G] And before I&#8217;ll be a [Em] slave, [C] I&#8217;ll be burried in my [Am] grave<br \/>\n[G] And go home to my [D] Lord and be [G] free<\/p>\n<p>[G]No more weepin&#8217; [D]No more weepin'[G]No more weepin&#8217; [D]over me<br \/>\n[G] And before I&#8217;ll be a [Em] slave, [C] I&#8217;ll be burried in my [Am] grave<br \/>\n[G] And go home to my [D] Lord and be [G] free<\/p>\n<p>[G]No more shootin&#8217; [D]No more shootin'[G]No more shootin&#8217; [D]over me<br \/>\n[G] And before I&#8217;ll be a [Em] slave, [C] I&#8217;ll be burried in my [Am] grave<br \/>\n[G] And go home to my [D] Lord and be [G] free<\/p>\n<p>[G]There&#8217;ll be singin&#8217; [D]There&#8217;ll be singin'[G]There&#8217;ll be singin&#8217; [D]over me<br \/>\n[G] And before I&#8217;ll be a [Em] slave, [C] I&#8217;ll be burried in my [Am] grave<br \/>\n[G] And go home to my [D] Lord and be [G] free<\/p>\n<p>[G] And before I&#8217;ll be a [Em] slave, [C] I&#8217;ll be burried in my [Am] grave<br \/>\n[G] And go home to my [D] Lord and be [G] free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Oh Freedom This is a great old spiritual. I recorded it during a thunder storm in Florida and decided to leave the thunder on the track to give it more ambiance. Freedom is often taken for granted, but is sorely missed when it&#8217;s gone. Happy Juneteenth!!! Lyrics: [G]Oh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh Freedom&#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-7019","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\/7019","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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9882,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/9882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}