{"id":7301,"date":"2010-10-01T05:46:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:31:33","slug":"pay-me-my-money-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7301","title":{"rendered":"Pay Me My Money Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Pay_Me.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\/Pay_Me.mp3\">Pay Me My Money Down &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">Pay Me My Money Down is a work song from the Georgia Sea Islands. The slaves there were in relative isolation from the culture of the Southern United States and retained much of their West and Central African heritage. They speak an English-based creole language containing many African words and using similar grammar and sentence structure to those of African languages.<\/p>\n<p>The melody is much older and is used in other songs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] I thought I heard the Captain say,<br \/>\nPay me my [D] money down,<br \/>\nTomorrow is our sailing day,<br \/>\nPay me my [G] money down<\/p>\n<p>[G] Oh pay me, oh pay me,<br \/>\nPay me my [D] money down,<br \/>\nPay me or go to jail,<br \/>\nPay me my [G] money down<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the boat was clear of the bar,<br \/>\nPay me my money down,<br \/>\nThe captain knocked me down with a spar,<br \/>\nPay me my money down<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;d been a rich man&#8217;s son,<br \/>\nPay me my money down,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d sit on the river and watch it run,<br \/>\nPay me my money down<\/p>\n<p>Well 40 nights, nights at sea<br \/>\nPay me my money down,<br \/>\nCaptain worked every last dollar out of me,<br \/>\nPay me my money down<\/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: Pay Me My Money Down &#8211; Click To Play Pay Me My Money Down is a work song from the Georgia Sea Islands. The slaves there were in relative isolation from the culture of the Southern United States and retained much of their West and Central African heritage. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pay Me My Money Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","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=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}