{"id":7096,"date":"2008-02-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:55:53","slug":"7096","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7096","title":{"rendered":"Old Joe Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Old_Joe_Clark.jpg\"\/><\/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_Joe_Clark.mp3\">Old Joe Clark<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This is another song that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. The song originated in Irish Creek, on the Blue Ridge Parkway near South River Virginia in the early 1800s. Joe Clark had a daughter who jilted her lover. The young man is said to have written the song out of spite and jealousy.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nOld Joe Clark<\/p>\n<p>[G] Old Joe Clark&#8217;s a fine old man<br \/>\nTell you the reason why<br \/>\nHe keeps good likker &#8217;round his house<br \/>\nGood old [F] Rock and [G] Rye<\/p>\n<p> [G] Fare ye well, Old Joe Clark<br \/>\n      Fare ye well, I [F] say<br \/>\n [G] Fare ye well, Old Joe Clark<br \/>\n    I&#8217;m a [F] going [G] away<\/p>\n<p>Old Joe Clark, the preacher&#8217;s son<br \/>\nPreached all over the pain<br \/>\nThe only text he ever knew<br \/>\nWas High, low, Jack and the game<\/p>\n<p>Old Joe Clark had a mule<br \/>\nHis name was Morgan Brown<br \/>\nAnd every tooth in that mule&#8217;s head<br \/>\nWas sixteen inches around<\/p>\n<p>Old Joe Clark had ayellow cat<br \/>\nShe would neither sing or pray<br \/>\nShe stuck her head in the butermilk jar<br \/>\nAnd washed her sins away<\/p>\n<p>Old Joe Clark had a house<br \/>\nFifteen stories high<br \/>\nAnd every story in that house<br \/>\nWas filled with chicken pie<\/p>\n<p>I went down to Old Joe&#8217;s house<br \/>\nHe invited me to supper<br \/>\nI stumped my toe on the table leg<br \/>\nAnd stuck my nose in the butter<\/p>\n<p>Now I wouldn&#8217;t marry a widder<br \/>\nTell you the reason why<br \/>\nShe&#8217;d have so many children<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d make those biscuits fly<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen horses in my team<br \/>\nThe leaders they are blind<br \/>\nAnd every time the sun goes down<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a pretty girl on my mind<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen miles of mountain road<br \/>\nAnd fifteen miles of sand<br \/>\nIf ever travel this road again<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be a married man\n<\/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: Old Joe Clark This is another song that I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. The song originated in Irish Creek, on the Blue Ridge Parkway near South River Virginia in the early 1800s. Joe Clark had a daughter who jilted her lover. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7096\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Joe Clark&#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":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096","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=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}