{"id":7072,"date":"2006-06-01T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T11:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2014-06-12T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:55:03","slug":"pretty-polly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7072","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Polly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n       <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Pretty_Polly.JPG\" height=\"400\" width=\"500\" alt=\"\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\">\n               <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n       <\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">\n               Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Pretty_Polly.mp3\">Pretty Polly<\/a>\n       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nOn our way up to Oriental North Carolina for a concert, we stopped for &#8220;Carolina Bar-B-Que&#8221; at a place called &#8220;Prissy Polly&#8217;s&#8221; just south of Winston Salem. The name reminded me of a song we recorded in the Byrds on the &#8220;Sweetheart of the Rodeo&#8221; album called &#8220;Pretty Polly.&#8221; I&#8217;d known the song since my days at the Old Town School of Folk Music and had always loved the modal tuning on the banjo and guitar in spite of the morbid lyrics. This is a good example of a song used for spreading the news of the day, way back before radio, television or the Internet. The content of the news today is however strikingly similar.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics: [G modal tuning]<\/p>\n<p>There used to be a gambler who courted all around<br \/>\nThere used to be a gambler who courted all around<br \/>\nHe courted Pretty Polly such beauty had never been found<\/p>\n<p>Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly come go along with me<br \/>\nPretty Polly, Pretty Polly come go along with me<br \/>\nBefore we get married some pleasures to see<\/p>\n<p>She jumped up behind him and away they did go<br \/>\nShe jumped up behind him and away they did go<br \/>\nDown into the valley that was far below<\/p>\n<p>They went a little further and what did they spy?<br \/>\nThey went a little further and what did they spy?<br \/>\nBut a new dug grave with a spade lying by<\/p>\n<p>Oh Willy dear Willy, I&#8217;m afraid of your way<br \/>\nOh Willy dear Willy, I&#8217;m afraid of your way<br \/>\nI&#8217;m afraid you might lead my poor body astray<\/p>\n<p>Pretty Polly, Pretty Polly you&#8217;ve guessed it just right<br \/>\nPretty Polly, Pretty Polly you&#8217;ve guessed it just right<br \/>\nI dug on your grave the better part of last night<\/p>\n<p>He stabbed her in the heart til her heart&#8217;s blood did flow<br \/>\nHe stabbed her in the heart til her heart&#8217;s blood did flow<br \/>\nDown into the grave Pretty Polly did go<\/p>\n<p>Now a debt to the Devil that Willy must pay<br \/>\nNow a debt to the Devil that Willy must pay<br \/>\nFor killing Pretty Polly and running away\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Pretty Polly On our way up to Oriental North Carolina for a concert, we stopped for &#8220;Carolina Bar-B-Que&#8221; at a place called &#8220;Prissy Polly&#8217;s&#8221; just south of Winston Salem. The name reminded me of a song we recorded in the Byrds on the &#8220;Sweetheart of the Rodeo&#8221; album &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pretty Polly&#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":[17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","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=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}