{"id":7161,"date":"2009-08-01T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:16:35","slug":"when-i-first-came-to-this-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7161","title":{"rendered":"When I First Came To This Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/When_I_First_Came_To_This_Land.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/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\/When_I_First_Came_To_This_Land.mp3\">When I First Came To This Land<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nPeople often ask where I get the folk songs for this site and I explain that I learned many of them at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago in my teen years. This is one of them. I can still see Frank Hamilton with his 5-string banjo and Win Stracky with his cigar and big Martin Dreadnought guitar standing in front of the whole group of students playing When I first came to this land.<\/p>\n<p>The cabin of the Crystal Cruise Serenity ocean liner was so quiet that I was able to record this and another song on our voyage from Miami to Lisbon. With a laptop and great recording software it&#8217;s possible to record almost anywhere these days! What a wonderful world!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[D] When I first came [G] to this [D] land, [G] I was [D] not a ]A] wealthy [D] man<br \/>\n[D] So I bought [G] myself a [D] shack and [G] I did [A] what I [D] could<br \/>\nAnd I [G] called my [D] shack [A] &#8220;Break A My [D] Back&#8221;<br \/>\nBut the land was [G] sweet and [D] good and [G] I did [A] what I [D] could<\/p>\n<p>When I first came to this land, I was not a wealthy man<br \/>\nSo I bought myself a farm and I did what I could<br \/>\nAnd I called my farm &#8220;Muscle In My Arm&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I called my shack &#8220;Break A My Back&#8221;<br \/>\nBut the land was sweet and good and I did what I could<\/p>\n<p>When I first came to this land, I was not a wealthy man<br \/>\nSo I bought myself a cow and I did what I could<br \/>\nAnd I called my cow &#8220;More Milk Now&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I called my farm &#8220;Muscle In My Arm&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I called my shack &#8220;Break A My Back&#8221;<br \/>\nBut the land was sweet and good and I did what I could<\/p>\n<p>When I first came to this land, I was not a wealthy man<br \/>\nSo I got myself a wife and I did what I could<br \/>\nAnd I called my wife  &#8220;Friend For Life&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I called my cow &#8220;More Milk Now&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I called my farm &#8220;Muscle In My Arm&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I called my shack &#8220;Break A My Back&#8221;<br \/>\nBut the land was sweet and good and I did what I could<br \/>\nBut the land was sweet and good and I did what I could<\/p>\n<\/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: When I First Came To This Land People often ask where I get the folk songs for this site and I explain that I learned many of them at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago in my teen years. This is one of them. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When I First Came To This Land&#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-7161","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\/7161","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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8728,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/8728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}