{"id":7555,"date":"2013-06-01T05:11:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T09:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:30:17","slug":"we-are-crossing-the-jordan-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7555","title":{"rendered":"We Are Crossing The Jordan River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Jordan_River.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\/Jordan_River.mp3\">We Are Crossing The Jordan River &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is a song that helped catapult Joan Baez to become the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/0,16641,19621123,00.html\">Queen of Folk Music<\/a>.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Gibson_(musician)\">Bob Gibson<\/a> had invited her to sing with him at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FB0VcYfOcXs\">1959 Newport Folk Festival<\/a>. Her performance was so riveting that two record labels, Columbia and Vanguard tried to sign her to a recording contract. Joan chose Vanguard thinking she would have more artistic license at a smaller label.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later Joan introduced her audiences to a then-unknown Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[D] We are crossing that [D7] Jordan River<br \/>\n[G] I want my [D] crown, [G] I want my [D] crown<br \/>\n[G] We are crossing that Jordan River<br \/>\n[A7] I want my crown, my golden crown<br \/>\n[D] Jordan River deep and [D7] wide<br \/>\n[G] Got my home on the [Gm] other side<br \/>\n[D] We are crossing [B7] that Jordan [E] River [A]<br \/>\n[D] I want my crown<\/p>\n<p>We are climbing Jacob&#8217;s ladder<br \/>\nI want to sit down, I want to sit down<br \/>\nWe are climbing Jacob&#8217;s ladder<br \/>\nI want to sit down, on my golden throne<br \/>\nJordan River chilly and cold<br \/>\nChills the body, not the soul<br \/>\nWe are crossing that Jordan River<br \/>\nI want my crown<\/p>\n<p>Now when I get to Heaven<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to sit down, I&#8217;m going to sit down<br \/>\nNow when I get to Heaven<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to sit down, on my golden throne<br \/>\nJordan River deep and wide<br \/>\nI Got my home on the other side<br \/>\nWe are crossing that Jordan River<br \/>\nI want my crown<\/p>\n<p>Jordan River chilly and cold<br \/>\nChills the body, not the soul<br \/>\nWe are crossing that Jordan River<br \/>\nI want my crown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: We Are Crossing The Jordan River &#8211; Click To Play This is a song that helped catapult Joan Baez to become the &#8220;Queen of Folk Music.&#8221; Bob Gibson had invited her to sing with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Her performance was so riveting that two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Are Crossing The Jordan River&#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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555","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=7555"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7555\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}