{"id":8347,"date":"2019-04-01T07:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:56:49","slug":"miles-high-maggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8347","title":{"rendered":"Miles High Maggie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Miles_High_Maggie.png\" 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\/Miles_High_Maggie.mp3\"><br \/>\nMiles High Maggie &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is based on a bluegrass standard &#8220;Little Maggie&#8221; recorded by Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Lester Flatt, Ricky Scaggs and almost every banjo player in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I have fond memories of standing around the fountain in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village on Sunday afternoons in the 60s playing guitar along with Roger Sprung and <a href=\"https:\/\/banjonews.com\/2008-12\/eric_weissberg_interview_by_mike_kropp_part_1.html\">Eric Weissberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody did this song about the same way. I decided to add a little &#8220;Eight Miles High&#8221; Rickenbacker to it for spice and in so doing a new genre: &#8220;JazzGrass&#8221; Ha!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>[A] Oh yonder stands little [G] Maggie<br \/>\n[A] With a dram glass [E7] in her [A] hands<br \/>\nShe\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s drinking away her [G] troubles<br \/>\n[A] She\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s a courting some [E7] other [A] man<\/p>\n<p>Oh how can I ever stand it<br \/>\nJust to see them two blue eyes<br \/>\nA shining in the moonlight<br \/>\nLike two diamonds in the sky<\/p>\n<p>Last time a saw little Maggie<br \/>\nShe was down on the banks of the sea<br \/>\nWith a forty-four around her Waste<br \/>\nAnd a banjo on her knee<\/p>\n<p>Lay down your last gold dollar<br \/>\nLay down your gold watch and chain<br \/>\nLittle Maggie\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s gonna dance for daddy<br \/>\nListen to that old banjo ring<\/p>\n<p>Pretty flowers were made for blooming<br \/>\nPretty stars were made to shine<br \/>\nPretty women were made for loving<br \/>\nLittle Maggie was made for mine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Miles High Maggie &#8211; Click To Play This is based on a bluegrass standard &#8220;Little Maggie&#8221; recorded by Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Lester Flatt, Ricky Scaggs and almost every banjo player in the world. I have fond memories of standing around the fountain in Washington Square Park in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miles High Maggie&#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":[38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazzgrass","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347","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=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}