{"id":9482,"date":"2022-06-01T05:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9482"},"modified":"2022-06-01T05:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T09:50:27","slug":"midnight-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9482","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Midnight_Special.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Midnight_Special.mp3\"><br \/>\nMidnight Special &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>Prison legend had it that if you were touched by the light of the Midnight Special train, you were bound to be freed from prison. &#8220;Midnight Special&#8221; was recorded by Lead Belly but had been around for at least twenty years before his version became popular.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n&#8220;The Midnight Special&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[G] Well, you wake up in the [C] mornin&#8217;, you hear the work bell [G] ring<br \/>\nAnd they march you to the [D] table you see the same old [G] thing<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t no food on the [C] table, and no pork is in the [G] pan<br \/>\nBut you better not [D] complain, or, you get in trouble with the [G] man<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus:]<br \/>\n[G] Let the Midnight [C] Special shine a light on [G] me<br \/>\nLet the Midnight [D] Special shine its everlovin&#8217; light on [G] me<\/p>\n<p>Yonder come miss Rosie, tell me how do you know?<br \/>\nBy the way she wears her apron, and the clothes she wore<br \/>\nUmbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand<br \/>\nShe come to see the gov&#8217;nor, she wants to free her man<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<\/p>\n<p>If you ever go to Houston, well, you better walk right<br \/>\nYou better not gamble, you better not fight<br \/>\nThe sheriff will grab you and thy&#8217;ll take you on down<br \/>\nThe next thing you know, You&#8217;re prison bound<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mp3: Midnight Special &#8211; Click To Play Prison legend had it that if you were touched by the light of the Midnight Special train, you were bound to be freed from prison. &#8220;Midnight Special&#8221; was recorded by Lead Belly but had been around for at least twenty years before his version became popular. Lyrics: &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Midnight Special&#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":[17,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus","category-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482","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=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions\/9488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}