{"id":9497,"date":"2022-08-01T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:58:52","slug":"down-on-pennys-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9497","title":{"rendered":"Down On Penny&#8217;s Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Foggy_Foggy_Dew.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Pennys_Farm.mp3\"><br \/>\nDown On Penny&#8217;s Farm &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>Got this from the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music. This song feels appropriate because farmers are having a real tough time making a living these days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>[G] Come you ladies and you gentlemen and listen to my song<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll sing it to you right, but you might think it&#8217;s wrong<br \/>\nMay make you mad but I mean no harm<br \/>\n[G] It&#8217;s just about the renters on [D] Penny&#8217;s [Em] farm<\/p>\n<p>[G] It&#8217;s hard times in the country<br \/>\nDown on [D] Penny&#8217;s [G] farm<\/p>\n<p>Now you move out on Penny&#8217;s farm<br \/>\nPlant a little crop of &#8216;bacco and a little crop of corn<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll come around to see, gonna plan and plot<br \/>\nTill he gets himself a mortgage on everything you got<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard times in the country<br \/>\nDown on Penny&#8217;s farm<\/p>\n<p>Hasn&#8217;t George Penny got a flattering mouth<br \/>\nMove you to the country in a little log house<br \/>\nGot no windows but cracks in the wall<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll work you all summer and rob you in the fall<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard times in the country<br \/>\nDown on Penny&#8217;s farm<\/p>\n<p>You go in the fields and you work all day<br \/>\nWay into the night but you get no pay<br \/>\nPromise you meat or a little lard<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to be a renter on Penny&#8217;s farm<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard times in the country<br \/>\nDown on Penny&#8217;s farm<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s George Penny come into town<br \/>\nWith his wagon-load of peaches, not one of them sound<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s got to have his money or somebody&#8217;s check<br \/>\nYou pay him for a bushel and you don&#8217;t get a peck<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard times in the country<br \/>\nDown on Penny&#8217;s farm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mp3: Down On Penny&#8217;s Farm &#8211; Click To Play Got this from the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music. This song feels appropriate because farmers are having a real tough time making a living these days. Lyrics: [G] Come you ladies and you gentlemen and listen to my song I&#8217;ll sing it to you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Down On Penny&#8217;s Farm&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497","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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}