{"id":7087,"date":"2007-07-01T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:58:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:58:06","slug":"the-coo-coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7087","title":{"rendered":"The Coo Coo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/The_Coo_Coo.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Coo_Coo.mp3\">The Coo Coo<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">&#8220;The Coo Coo&#8221; is a &#8220;folk-lyric&#8221; style song, where verses are interchangeable with verses from other folk songs such as &#8220;The Wagoner&#8217;s Lad,&#8221; and &#8220;East Virginia,&#8221; which are otherwise unrelated. The first verse can also be heard in &#8220;Way Down The Old Plank Road&#8221; sung by Dave Macon. &#8220;The Coo Coo&#8221; was originally recorded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Coo\">Clarence &#8220;Tom&#8221; Ashley<\/a> in Johnson City TN November 23, 1929.<br \/>\nThis song style possibly developed between 1850 &#8211; 1875 in Kentucky. <\/p>\n<p>A British version can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/cecil-sharp\">Cecil Sharp&#8217;s<\/a> collection: &#8220;Folk Songs From Somerset.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nNo chords are given because it&#8217;s all in A modal tuning.<\/p>\n<p>The Coo Coo<\/p>\n<p>Gonna build me &#8211; log cabin on a mountain so high<br \/>\nSo I can &#8211; see Julie  as she goes on by<\/p>\n<p>Aw the Coo Coo is a pretty bird she warbles as she flies<br \/>\nShe never hollers coo coo till the fourth day  July<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played cards in England I&#8217;ve played cards in Spain<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll bet you ten dollars that I&#8217;ll beat you next game<\/p>\n<p>Jack of diamonds jack of diamonds I&#8217;ve known you from old<br \/>\nNow you&#8217;ve robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had a good horse and corn to feed him on<br \/>\nI wish I had Julie to feed him when I&#8217;m gone<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played cards in England I&#8217;ve played cards in Spain<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll bet you ten dollars I&#8217;ll beat you this game<\/p>\n<p>Aw the Coo Coo is a pretty bird she warbles as she flies<br \/>\nShe never hollers coo coo till the fourth day  July<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Coo Coo &#8220;The Coo Coo&#8221; is a &#8220;folk-lyric&#8221; style song, where verses are interchangeable with verses from other folk songs such as &#8220;The Wagoner&#8217;s Lad,&#8221; and &#8220;East Virginia,&#8221; which are otherwise unrelated. The first verse can also be heard in &#8220;Way Down The Old Plank Road&#8221; sung &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Coo Coo&#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":[16,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","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=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}