{"id":7875,"date":"2015-01-01T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:46:48","slug":"the-ash-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7875","title":{"rendered":"The Ash Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/east.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/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\/Ash_Grove.mp3\"> The Ash Grove &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThe Ash Grove is a 19th century Welsh folk song the tune of which has been set to many different lyrics including hymns and Christmas carols.<\/p>\n<p>At age 17 my first professional show was at Ed Pearl&#8217;s Ash Grove folk music club at 8162 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. The venue was named after this song.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded the RCA LP &#8220;Tonight in Person&#8221; with the Limeliters there in July of 1960. I had my 18th birthday in the club and the servers brought me a cupcake with a candle. It&#8217;s a sweet memory!<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n        [G] Down yonder green valley, where [Am] streamlets [D] meander,<br \/>\nWhen [G] twilight is [C] fading I [D] pensively [G] rove<br \/>\nOr at the bright noontide in [Am] solitude [D] wander,<br \/>\n[G] Amid the dark [C] shades of the [D] lonely [G] ash grove;<br \/>\n&#8216;T was there, while the blackbird [Am] was cheerfully singing,<br \/>\n[G] I first met that dear one, [A] the joy of my [D] heart!<br \/>\n[G] Around us for gladness the [Am] bluebells were [D] ringing,<br \/>\n[G] Ah! then little [C] thought I how [D] soon we should [G] part.<\/p>\n<p>Still glows the bright sunshine o&#8217;er valley and mountain,<br \/>\nStill warbles the blackbird its note from the tree;<br \/>\nStill trembles the moonbeam on streamlet and fountain,<br \/>\nBut what are the beauties of nature to me?<br \/>\nWith sorrow, deep sorrow, my bosom is laden,<br \/>\nAll day I go mourning in search of my love;<br \/>\nYe echoes, oh, tell me, where is the sweet maiden?<br \/>\n&#8220;She sleeps, &#8216;neath the green turf down by the ash grove.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Repeat First Verse<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Ash Grove &#8211; Click To Play The Ash Grove is a 19th century Welsh folk song the tune of which has been set to many different lyrics including hymns and Christmas carols. At age 17 my first professional show was at Ed Pearl&#8217;s Ash Grove folk music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7875\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ash Grove&#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-7875","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\/7875","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=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}