{"id":8152,"date":"2017-04-01T04:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T08:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:34:41","slug":"rock-a-my-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8152","title":{"rendered":"Rock A My Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Rock_A_My_Soul.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\/Rock_A_My_Soul.mp3\"> Rock A My Soul &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nRock A My Soul is a classic African-American spiritual originating in the southern United States. It refers to a parable in Gospel of Luke of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man had his reward in life but the poor beggar Lazarus suffered greatly. In death Lazarus went to enjoy the comfort of the bosom of Abraham and the rich man was tortured in Hades.<\/p>\n<p>The counterpoint of the two choruses is just for fun. You gotta go in through the door.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>CH 1)<\/p>\n<p>[E] Rock a my soul in the bosom of Abraham<br \/>\n[B7] Rock a my soul in the bosom of Abraham<br \/>\n[E] Rock a my soul in the bosom of Abraham<br \/>\n[B7] Lord rock a my [E] soul<\/p>\n<p>CH 2) Overlap<\/p>\n<p>[E] So high you can\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;t get over it<br \/>\n[B7] So low you can\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;t get under it<br \/>\n[E] So wide you can\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;t get around it<br \/>\n[B7] You gotta go in through the [E] door<\/p>\n<p>[E] I would not be a sinner<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll tell you the reason [B7] why<br \/>\nIf by chance my Lord should [A] call me<br \/>\n[B7] Then I wouldn&#8217;t be ready to [E] die<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you rock a my soul<br \/>\nIn the bosom of Abraham<br \/>\nRock a my soul in the bosom of Abraham<br \/>\nRock a my soul in the bosom of Abraham<br \/>\nOh rock a my soul<br \/>\nWhy don&#8217;t you rock a my soul<\/p>\n<p>I went down in the valley<br \/>\nTo find me and place to pray<br \/>\nI felt my soul so happy<br \/>\nThat I sang my prayers all day<\/p>\n<p>CH out<\/p>\n<p>(c) 2017 McGuinn Music \/<br \/>\nNew Lyrics By Roger McGuinn<\/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: Rock A My Soul &#8211; Click To Play Rock A My Soul is a classic African-American spiritual originating in the southern United States. It refers to a parable in Gospel of Luke of the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man had his reward in life but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rock A My Soul&#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":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}