{"id":7629,"date":"2014-01-01T06:17:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:36:24","slug":"the-month-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7629","title":{"rendered":"The Month of January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/January_Song.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\/January_Song.mp3\">The Month of January &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis traditional song [Roud Folksong Database #175] has been sung all over the world. It&#8217;s the tragic story of a young woman who became pregnant by her poor lover. Her rich parents bribe the young man to disappear. She is left to freeze in the cold with her infant.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this with the &#8220;Jetglow&#8221; Rickenbacker given to me by my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rvwrlee\">Bill Lee<\/a>, using my new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JangleBox\">Janglebox 3<\/a> for both Rickenbacker 12-string and bass.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nCapo 1st fret Key of D<\/p>\n<p>[D] It was in the month of January, the [C] hills were clad in [D] snow<br \/>\nAnd over hills and valleys, to my true love I did [G] go<br \/>\n[D] It was there I met a pretty fair maid, with a salt tear in her [C] eye<br \/>\n[D] She had a wee baby in her arms, and [C] bitter she did [D] cry<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, cruel was my father, he barred the door on me<br \/>\nAnd cruel was my mother, this fate she let me see<br \/>\nAnd cruel was my own true love, he changed his mind for gold<br \/>\nCruel was that winter&#8217;s night, it pierced my heart with cold&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the higher that the palm tree grows, the sweeter is the bark<br \/>\nAnd the fairer that a young man speaks, the falser is his heart<br \/>\nHe will kiss you and embrace you, &#8217;til he thinks he has you won<br \/>\nThen he&#8217;ll go away and leave you all for another one<\/p>\n<p>So come all you fair and tender maidens, a warning take by me<br \/>\nAnd never try to build your nest on top of a high tree<br \/>\nFor the roots, they will all wither, and the branches all decay<br \/>\nAnd the beauties of a fair young man, will all soon fade away<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Month of January &#8211; Click To Play This traditional song [Roud Folksong Database #175] has been sung all over the world. It&#8217;s the tragic story of a young woman who became pregnant by her poor lover. Her rich parents bribe the young man to disappear. She is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Month of January&#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":[16,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-love","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8846,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}