{"id":9428,"date":"2022-03-01T06:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T10:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2022-03-01T06:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T10:24:36","slug":"road-through-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9428","title":{"rendered":"Road Through The Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Road.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\/Road.mp3\"><br \/>\nRoad Through The Woods &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>This is a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling set to a traditional folk tune. The arrangement is new in the style of the Byrds with rolling Rickenbacker backing and lead 12-string guitars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n[E] They shut the [B7] road through [E] the woods<br \/>\n[A] Seventy years [E] ago.<br \/>\n[A] Weather and rain have [E] undone it again,<br \/>\n[F#m] And now you would never [B7] know<\/p>\n<p>There was once a road through the woods<br \/>\nBefore they planted the trees.<br \/>\nIt is underneath the coppice and heath,<br \/>\nAnd the thin anemones.<\/p>\n<p>Only the keeper sees<br \/>\nThat, where the ring-dove broods,<br \/>\nAnd the badgers roll at ease,<br \/>\nThere was once a road through the woods.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK<\/p>\n<p>Yet, if you enter the woods<br \/>\nOf a summer evening late,<br \/>\nWhen the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools<br \/>\nWhere the otter whistles his mate,<\/p>\n<p>(They fear not men in the woods,<br \/>\nBecause they see so few.)<br \/>\nYou will hear the beat of a horse&#8217;s feet,<br \/>\nAnd the swish of a skirt in the dew,<\/p>\n<p>Steadily cantering through<br \/>\nThe misty solitudes,<br \/>\nAs though they perfectly knew<br \/>\nThe old lost road through the woods.<\/p>\n<p>They shut the road through the woods<br \/>\nSeventy years ago.<br \/>\nWeather and rain have undone it again,<br \/>\nAnd now you would never know<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Road Through The Woods &#8211; Click To Play This is a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling set to a traditional folk tune. The arrangement is new in the style of the Byrds with rolling Rickenbacker backing and lead 12-string guitars. Lyrics: [E] They shut the [B7] road through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Road Through The Woods&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","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=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}