{"id":7597,"date":"2013-09-01T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:34:18","slug":"jimmy-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7597","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Jimmy_Brown.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\/Jimmy_Brown.mp3\">Jimmy Brown &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nI first heard this tune in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Eric Weissberg and Roger Sprung would stand around the fountain and play banjo while we all played guitars.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[C] I sell the morning papers sir my name is [G] Jimmy Brown<br \/>\nEverybody knows that I&#8217;m the newsboy of this [C] town<br \/>\nYou can hear me yellin&#8217; Morning Star up and down [G] the street<br \/>\nGot no hat upon my head no shoes upon my [C] feet<\/p>\n<p>Never mind sir how I look don&#8217;t look at me and frown<br \/>\nSell the morning papers sir my name is Jimmy Brown<br \/>\nI&#8217;m awful cold and hungry sir my clothes is mighty thin<br \/>\nWander bout from place to place my daily bread to win<\/p>\n<p>My father died a drunkard sir I&#8217;ve heard my mama say<br \/>\nI am helpin&#8217; mama sir as I journey on my way<br \/>\nMy mama always tells me sir I&#8217;ve nothing in the world to lose<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll get a place in heaven sir to sell the Gospel News<\/p>\n<p>I sell the morning papers sir my name is Jimmy Brown<br \/>\nEverybody knows that I&#8217;m the newsboy of this town<br \/>\nYou can hear me yellin&#8217; Morning Star up and down the street<br \/>\nGot a hat upon my head no shoes upon my feet<\/p>\n<p>My father died a drunkard sir I&#8217;ve heard my mama say<br \/>\nI am helpin&#8217; mama sir, as I journey on my way<br \/>\nMy mama always tells me sir I&#8217;ve nothing in the world to lose<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll get a place in heaven sir to sell the Gospel News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Jimmy Brown &#8211; Click To Play I first heard this tune in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Eric Weissberg and Roger Sprung would stand around the fountain and play banjo while we all played guitars. Lyrics: [C] I sell the morning papers sir my name is [G] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jimmy Brown&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","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=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}