{"id":7360,"date":"2011-06-01T05:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:40:13","slug":"leave-her-johnny-leave-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7360","title":{"rendered":"Leave Her Johnny Leave Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Leave_Her_Johnny.png\" 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\/Leave_Her_Johnny.mp3\">Leave Her Johnny Leave Her &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nLiam Clancy sang this in concert. He&#8217;d introduce it: &#8220;Here&#8217;s a song you haven&#8217;t heard before but you&#8217;ll learn it in a few minutes and when you go home tonight, you&#8217;ll have a new song in your <em>repertoire.&#8221;<\/em> He&#8217;d get a good laugh on that! &#8220;It&#8217;s an old sea chantey. There was always a kind of sadness at the end of a voyage, in spite of all the fights and hardship, the sailors were a bit sorry to leave and they&#8217;d sing this song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Space Shuttle <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Endeavour\">Endeavour<\/a> has landed for the last time, I would imagine the astronauts felt the same way as sailors leaving their ship.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Leave_Her_Johnny.mp4\">video<\/a> Camilla McGuinn shot at a concert where I performed this with John Sebastian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[D] I thought I heard the old man say,<br \/>\n[A] &#8220;Leave her, Johnny, [D] leave her,<br \/>\n[G] It&#8217;s a long, hard [D] pull to your [A] next [D] payday<br \/>\n[D] And it&#8217;s time for us to [A] leave [D] her&#8221;.<br \/>\n-Chorus-<br \/>\n[A] Leave her, Johnny, [D] leave her!<br \/>\n[G] Oh, leave her, Johnny, [D] leave her,<br \/>\nOh the [G] voyage is [D] done and the [A] winds don&#8217;t [D] blow,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s time for us to [A] leave [D] her!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the skipper was bad, but the mate was worse.<br \/>\nLeave her, Johnny, leave her<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d blow you down with a spike and a curse,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s time for us to leave her.<br \/>\n-Chorus-<br \/>\nLeave her, Johnny, leave her!<br \/>\nOh, leave her, Johnny, leave her,<br \/>\nFor the voyage is done and the winds don&#8217;t blow,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s time for us to leave her!<\/p>\n<p>Oh pull you lubbers or you&#8217;ll get no pay<br \/>\nOh, leave her, Johnny, leave her,<br \/>\nOh pull you lubbers and then belay<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s time for us to leave her!<br \/>\n-Chorus-<br \/>\nLeave her, Johnny, leave her!<br \/>\nOh, leave her, Johnny, leave her,<br \/>\nFor the voyage is done and the winds don&#8217;t blow,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s time for us to leave her!<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time to say goodbye<br \/>\nOh, leave her, Johnny, leave her,<br \/>\nThem pilings they is a-drawing nigh<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s time for us to leave her!<br \/>\n-Chorus- X 2<\/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: Leave Her Johnny Leave Her &#8211; Click To Play Liam Clancy sang this in concert. He&#8217;d introduce it: &#8220;Here&#8217;s a song you haven&#8217;t heard before but you&#8217;ll learn it in a few minutes and when you go home tonight, you&#8217;ll have a new song in your repertoire.&#8221; He&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leave Her Johnny Leave Her&#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":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","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=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8775,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions\/8775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}