{"id":7093,"date":"2007-11-01T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:56:40","slug":"old-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7093","title":{"rendered":"Old Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Old_Blue_DC.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nBlue Dog Painting by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Rodrigue\">George Rodrigue<\/a>\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\/Old_Blue.mp3\">Old Blue<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">We recorded Old Blue on Dr. Byrds &#038; Mr. Hyde in back 1968. I&#8217;d heard it performed live by Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn in Chicago in 1961 and had always loved it. There&#8217;s a version by Jim Jackson on the Harry Smith Anthology but it&#8217;s completely different, a lot more of a blues. <\/p>\n<p>When I sing this in concert I ask the audience to clap along, following an unusual pattern. It&#8217;s fun to hear them get the syncopation right. But someone always claps in the wrong place and makes everybody laugh.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nOld Blue     (trad.)<\/p>\n<p>[D] Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue<br \/>\nYes I had an old dog and his [A] name was [D] Blue<br \/>\nWell I had an old dog and his name was Blue<br \/>\nI bet you five dollars he&#8217;s a [A] good dog [D] too<\/p>\n<p>Old Blue chased a possum up a holler limb<br \/>\nBlue chased a possum up a holler limb<br \/>\nBlue chased a possum up a holler limb<br \/>\nThe possum growled, Blue whined at him<\/p>\n<p>[D] Bye Bye [Bm] Blue, [G] you good dog [D] you<br \/>\nBye Bye [Bm] Blue, you [G] good dog [D] you<\/p>\n<p>When old Blue died he died so hard<br \/>\nHe shook the ground in my back yard<br \/>\nWe lowered him down with a golden chain<br \/>\nand every link we called his name<\/p>\n<p>My old Blue was a good old hound<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d hear him holler miles around<br \/>\nWhen I get to heaven first thing I&#8217;ll do<br \/>\nis grab my horn and call for Blue<\/p>\n<p>The Byrds   &#8220;Dr.Byrds And Mr.Hyde&#8221;<br \/>\nColumbia Records 1968&#8243;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Dog Painting by George Rodrigue How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Old Blue We recorded Old Blue on Dr. Byrds &#038; Mr. Hyde in back 1968. I&#8217;d heard it performed live by Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn in Chicago in 1961 and had always loved it. There&#8217;s a version by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Blue&#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":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","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=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8705,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}