{"id":7601,"date":"2013-10-01T07:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:34:43","slug":"swannanoa-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7601","title":{"rendered":"Swannanoa Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Swannanoa_Tunnel.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\/Swannanoa_Tunnel.mp3\">Swannanoa Tunnel &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is a Western North Carolina folksong about an 1800 foot railroad tunnel constructed in the late Nineteenth Century with the help of convict labor. <a href=\"http:\/\/thereadonwnc.ning.com\/forum\/topics\/the-swannanoa-tunnel-depended-on-convict-labor?xg_browser=iphone\">HERE<\/a> is an interesting historical discussion about it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>Riff in A<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going back to the Swannanoa Tunnel<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s my home, baby, that&#8217;s my home<\/p>\n<p>Asheville Junction, Swannanoa Tunnel<br \/>\nAll caved in, baby, all caved in<\/p>\n<p>Last December I remember<br \/>\nThe wind blowed cold, baby, the wind blowed cold<\/p>\n<p>When you hear my watchdog howling<br \/>\nSomebody around, baby, somebody around<\/p>\n<p>When you hear that hoot owl squalling<br \/>\nSomebody dying, baby, somebody dying<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t no hammer in this mountain<br \/>\nOut rings mine, baby, out rings mine<\/p>\n<p>This old hammer it killed John Henry<br \/>\nIt didn&#8217;t kill me, baby, couldn&#8217;t kill me<\/p>\n<p>Riley Gardner, he killed my partner<br \/>\nHe couldn&#8217;t kill me, baby, he couldn&#8217;t kill me<\/p>\n<p>This old hammer it rings like silver<br \/>\nIt shines like gold, baby, it shines like gold<\/p>\n<p>Take this hammer, throw it in the river<br \/>\nIt rings right on, baby, it shines right on<\/p>\n<p>Some of these days I&#8217;ll see that woman<br \/>\nWell that&#8217;s no dream, baby, that&#8217;s no dream<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Swannanoa Tunnel &#8211; Click To Play This is a Western North Carolina folksong about an 1800 foot railroad tunnel constructed in the late Nineteenth Century with the help of convict labor. HERE is an interesting historical discussion about it. Lyrics: Riff in A I&#8217;m going back to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swannanoa Tunnel&#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":[17,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus","category-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601","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=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}