{"id":7024,"date":"2005-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-07T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:50:13","slug":"cindy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7024","title":{"rendered":"Cindy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Cindy.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Cindy.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\/Cindy.mp3\">Cindy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This is one of the great American folk songs that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. I love playing banjo on this song, which according to John Lomax is originally from North Carolina. Cindy is a widely known frolic tune, appearing in many folk music collections and even old elementary school songbooks.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nCINDY<\/p>\n<p>[C] You ought to see my Cindy<br \/>\nShe lives away down [G] south<br \/>\n[C] She&#8217;s so sweet the [F] honeybees<br \/>\n[C] Swarm [G] around her [C] mouth.<\/p>\n<p>cho: Get along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nGet along [C] home.<br \/>\nGet along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll [C] marry [G] you some [C] day. (I&#8217;m a-gonna leave you now)<\/p>\n<p>Wish I was an apple<br \/>\nHangin on a tree<br \/>\nAn&#8217; every time that Cindy passed<br \/>\nShe&#8217;d take a bite o&#8217; me<\/p>\n<p>cho: Get along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nGet along [C] home.<br \/>\nGet along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll [C] marry [G] you some [C] day. (I&#8217;m a-gonna leave you now)<\/p>\n<p>She took me to the parlor<br \/>\nShe cooled me with her fan<br \/>\nShe said I was the prettiest thing<br \/>\nIn the shape of mortal man<\/p>\n<p>cho: Get along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nGet along [C] home.<br \/>\nGet along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll [C] marry [G] you some [C] day. (I&#8217;m a-gonna leave you now)<\/p>\n<p>Now Cindy got religion,<br \/>\nShe had it once before<br \/>\nWhen she heered my old banjo<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the first one on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>cho: Get along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nGet along [C] home.<br \/>\nGet along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll [C] marry [G] you some [C] day. (I&#8217;m a-gonna leave you now)<\/p>\n<p>Now Cindy got religion,<br \/>\nShe wheeled round and round<br \/>\nShe got so full of glory<br \/>\nThat she knocked the preacher down<\/p>\n<p>cho: Get along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nGet along [C] home.<br \/>\nGet along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll [C] marry [G] you some [C] day. (I&#8217;m a-gonna leave you now)<\/p>\n<p>[C] You ought to see my Cindy<br \/>\nShe lives away down [G] south<br \/>\n[C] She&#8217;s so sweet that [F] honeybees<br \/>\n[C] Swarm [G] around her [C] mouth.<\/p>\n<p>cho: Get along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nGet along [C] home.<br \/>\nGet along [F] home, Cindy Cindy<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll [C] marry [G] you some [C] day. (X2)<\/p>\n<p>Some additional verses:<\/p>\n<p>Cindy in the summertime<br \/>\nCindy in the fall<br \/>\nIf I can&#8217;t have Cindy all the time<br \/>\nHave no one at all.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy is a pretty girl<br \/>\nCindy is a peach;<br \/>\nThrew her arms around my neck<br \/>\nHung on like a leach.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy got religion,<br \/>\nTell you what she done:<br \/>\nWalked up to the minister<br \/>\nChawed her chewin&#8217; gum.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy got religion,<br \/>\nShe had it once before<br \/>\nWhen she heered my old banjo<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the first one on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy got religion<br \/>\nShe really went to town;<br \/>\nGot so full of glory, Lord,<br \/>\nShook her stockin&#8217;s down.<\/p>\n<p>If I had a pretty gal<br \/>\nI&#8217;d put her on a shelf;<br \/>\nEv&#8217;ry time she smiled at me,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d jump right up myself.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy had one blue eye<br \/>\nShe also had one brown<br \/>\nOne eye looked in the country<br \/>\nThe other one looked in town<\/p>\n<p>Wish I had a needle and thread<br \/>\nWish that I could sew<br \/>\nI&#8217;d sew that gal to my coat tails<br \/>\nAnd down the road we&#8217;d go<\/p>\n<p>alt chorus:<br \/>\nGit along home, Cindy<br \/>\nGit along home to stay<br \/>\nGit along home, Cindy<br \/>\nOne more night &#8216;n&#8217; day<\/p>\n<p>alt cho: It&#8217;s kiss me, gal<br \/>\nKiss me once again.<br \/>\nOh, it&#8217;s kiss me, gal<br \/>\nAll night long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Cindy This is one of the great American folk songs that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. I love playing banjo on this song, which according to John Lomax is originally from North Carolina. Cindy is a widely known frolic tune, appearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cindy&#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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024","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=7024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7024\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}