{"id":7639,"date":"2014-04-01T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:38:31","slug":"the-lazy-farmer-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7639","title":{"rendered":"The Lazy Farmer Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Lazy_Farmer_Boy.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\/Lazy_Farmer_Boy.mp3\">The Lazy Farmer Boy &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nAnother fine song from The Anthology of American Folk Music. I emulated the performance of  Buster Carter and Preston Young, staying in the same key and tempo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tale of a misunderstanding between a corn farmer who has lost his crop due to freezing weather, and his fianc\u00c3\u00a9e who thinks he&#8217;s just too lazy to grow the corn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n I&#8217;ll sing a little song but it ain&#8217;t very long<br \/>\nAbout a lazy farmer who wouldn&#8217;t hoe his corn<br \/>\nAnd why it was I never could tell<br \/>\nFor that young man was always well<br \/>\nThat young man was always well<\/p>\n<p>He planted his corn on June the last<br \/>\nIn July it was up to his eye<br \/>\nIn September there came a big frost<br \/>\nAnd all that young man&#8217;s corn was lost<br \/>\nAll that young man&#8217;s corn was lost<\/p>\n<p>He started to the field and got there at last<br \/>\nThe grass and weeds was up to his chin<br \/>\nThe grass and weeds had grown so high<br \/>\nIt caused that poor man for to sigh<br \/>\nCaused that poor man for to sigh<\/p>\n<p>Now his courtship had just begun<br \/>\nShe said, &#8220;Young man have you hoed your corn?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve tried I&#8217;ve tried I&#8217;ve tried in vain<br \/>\nBut I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ll raise one grain<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ll raise one grain&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do you come to me to wed<br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t raise your own cornbread?<br \/>\nSingle I am and will remain<br \/>\nFor a lazy man I won&#8217;t maintain<br \/>\nA lazy man I won&#8217;t maintain&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He hung his head and walked away<br \/>\nSaying &#8220;Kind miss you&#8217;ll rue the day<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll rue the day that you were born<br \/>\nFor giving me trouble &#8217;cause I wouldn&#8217;t hoe my corn<br \/>\nGiving me trouble &#8217;cause I wouldn&#8217;t hoe my corn&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now his courtship was to an end<br \/>\nOn his way he then began<br \/>\nSaying &#8220;Kind miss I&#8217;ll have another girl<br \/>\nIf I have to ramble this big wide world<br \/>\nIf I have to ramble this big wide world&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Lazy Farmer Boy &#8211; Click To Play Another fine song from The Anthology of American Folk Music. I emulated the performance of Buster Carter and Preston Young, staying in the same key and tempo. It&#8217;s a tale of a misunderstanding between a corn farmer who has lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lazy Farmer Boy&#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":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","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=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8852,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/8852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}