{"id":7394,"date":"2011-11-01T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:49:04","slug":"the-cobbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7394","title":{"rendered":"The Cobbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/The_Cobbler.gif\" 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\/The_Cobbler.mp3\">The Cobbler &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is a traditional Irish song that I first heard at the Chicago folk club The Gate of Horn sung by Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers. The lab stone was a stone held in the cobbler&#8217;s lap, used for beating materials into shape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[D] Oh, his name is [A] Dick Darby, he&#8217;s a [D] cobbler<br \/>\nHe served his time at the old [C] camp<br \/>\n[D] Some call him an [G] old [D] agitator<br \/>\nBut now he&#8217;s [A] resolved to [D] repent<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\nWith me ing-twing of an ing-thing of an i-doe<br \/>\nWith me ing-twing of an ing-thing of an i-day<br \/>\nWith me roo-boo-boo roo-boo-boo randy<br \/>\nAnd me lab stone keeps beating away<\/p>\n<p>Now, his father was hung for sheep stealing<br \/>\nHis mother was burned for a witch<br \/>\nHis sister&#8217;s a dandy house-keeper<br \/>\nAnd he&#8217;s a mechanical switch<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s forty long years he has traveled<br \/>\nAll by the contents of his pack<br \/>\nHis hammers, his awls and his pinchers<br \/>\nHe carries them all on his back<\/p>\n<p>Oh, his wife she is humpy, she&#8217;s lumpy<br \/>\nHis wife she&#8217;s the devil, she&#8217;s cracked<br \/>\nAnd no matter what he may do with her<br \/>\nHer tongue, it goes clickety-clack<\/p>\n<p>It was early one fine summer&#8217;s morning<br \/>\nA little before it was day<br \/>\nHe dipped her three times in the river<br \/>\nAnd carelessly bade her &#8216;Good day&#8217;<\/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: The Cobbler &#8211; Click To Play This is a traditional Irish song that I first heard at the Chicago folk club The Gate of Horn sung by Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers. The lab stone was a stone held in the cobbler&#8217;s lap, used for beating materials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cobbler&#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":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394","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=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}