{"id":7927,"date":"2015-05-01T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T11:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:52:58","slug":"acres-of-clams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7927","title":{"rendered":"Acres of Clams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Acres_of_Clams.png\" 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\/Acres_of_Clams.mp3\"> Acres of Clams &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n Francis D. Henry wrote the &#8220;Old Settler&#8217;s Song,&#8221;\u009d or &#8220;Acres of Clams&#8221; around 1874. Set to the tune of &#8220;Rosin the Bow,&#8221; it was thought to be the state song of Washington according to the The People&#8217;s Song Bulletin until it was decided the lyrics were not dignified enough.<\/p>\n<p>I learned &#8220;Acres of Clams&#8221; at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago around 1957 and found it recently in a book from the school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[E] I wandered all [B7] over this [E] country<br \/>\nProspecting and mining for [C#m] gold<br \/>\n[E] I&#8217;ve tunneled, [B7] hydraulicked and [E] cradled<br \/>\nAnd I have been [B7] frequently [E] sold<\/p>\n<p>CH: And I have been frequently [A] sold<br \/>\nAnd I have been frequently [C#m] sold<br \/>\n[E] I&#8217;ve tunneled, [B7] hydraulicked and [E] cradled<br \/>\nAnd I have been [B7] frequently [E] sold<\/p>\n<p>For one who gets riches by mining<br \/>\nPerceiving that hundreds grow poor<br \/>\nI made up my mind to try farming<br \/>\nThe only pursuit that is sure<\/p>\n<p>So rolling my grub in a blanket<br \/>\nI left all my tools on the ground<br \/>\nAnd started one morning to shank it<br \/>\nFor a country they call Puget Sound<\/p>\n<p>Arriving flat broke in midwinter<br \/>\nI found it enveloped in fog<br \/>\nAnd covered all over with timber<br \/>\nThick as hair on a dog<\/p>\n<p>I took up a claim in the forest<br \/>\nAnd set myself down to hard toil<br \/>\nFor two years I chopped and I loggered<br \/>\nBut I never got down to the soil<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get out of the country<br \/>\nBut poverty forced my to stay<br \/>\nUntil I became an old settler<br \/>\nThen you couldn&#8217;t drive me away<\/p>\n<p>But now that I&#8217;m used to the climate<br \/>\nI think that if a man ever found<br \/>\nA spot to live easy and happy<br \/>\nThat Eden is on Puget Sound<\/p>\n<p>No longer a slave to ambition<br \/>\nI laugh at the world and its shams<br \/>\nAs I think of my happy condition<br \/>\nSurrounded by acres of clams<\/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: Acres of Clams &#8211; Click To Play Francis D. Henry wrote the &#8220;Old Settler&#8217;s Song,&#8221;\u009d or &#8220;Acres of Clams&#8221; around 1874. Set to the tune of &#8220;Rosin the Bow,&#8221; it was thought to be the state song of Washington according to the The People&#8217;s Song Bulletin until it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Acres of Clams&#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":[18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-pacific-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927","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=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}