{"id":7457,"date":"2012-08-01T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:22:48","slug":"isnt-it-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7457","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t It Grand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Grand.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\/Grand.mp3\">Isn&#8217;t It Grand? &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is an old English music hall song making fun of death and funerals. I turned 70 on July 13, 2012. People were shocked! So was I. That&#8217;s why I decided to record this song for the Folk Den on July 14. Last night, July 31, my Brother Brian called to tell us that my mother Dorothy had passed away just three days after her 102nd birthday. We&#8217;d spent the day with her in Tucson where my grandson James and I had played guitars and sung her favorite songs to her.<\/p>\n<p>When we got the sad news, Camilla wrote this <a href=\"http:\/\/rogermcguinn.blogspot.com\/\">blog post:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ll have a bloody good cry.<br \/>\nAnd always remember: The longer you live<br \/>\nThe sooner you&#8217;ll going to die<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nLook at the coffin, with golden handles<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not have a sniffle, let&#8217;s have a bloody-good cry<br \/>\nAnd always remember: The longer you live<br \/>\nThe sooner you&#8217;ll going to die<\/p>\n<p>Look at the flowers, all bloody withered<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not have a sniffle, let&#8217;s have a bloody-good cry<br \/>\nAnd always remember: The longer you live<br \/>\nThe sooner you&#8217;ll going to die<\/p>\n<p>Look at the preacher, a bloody-nice fellow<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not have a sniffle, let&#8217;s have a bloody-good cry<br \/>\nAnd always remember: The longer you live<br \/>\nThe sooner you&#8217;ll going to die<\/p>\n<p>Look at the widow, lovely young female<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not have a sniffle, let&#8217;s have a bloody-good cry<br \/>\nAnd always remember: The longer you live<br \/>\nThe sooner you&#8217;ll going to die<\/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: Isn&#8217;t It Grand? &#8211; Click To Play This is an old English music hall song making fun of death and funerals. I turned 70 on July 13, 2012. People were shocked! So was I. That&#8217;s why I decided to record this song for the Folk Den on July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isn&#8217;t It Grand?&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","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=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}