{"id":9652,"date":"2023-09-01T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2023-09-01T07:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:24:36","slug":"hey-lilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9652","title":{"rendered":"Hey Lilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Hey_Lilee.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Hey_Lilee.mp3\"><br \/>\nHey Lilee &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>&#8220;Hey Lilee&#8221; is a song I played with the Limeliters on my first professional recording, &#8220;Tonight In Person.&#8221; We recorded it live at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles in July of 1960. Although I didn&#8217;t receive credit on the album, I made a lot of cash as the opening act and backup musician for the Limeliters, on guitar and banjo.<br \/>\nThis is an improvisational song where the audience was invited to make up verses on the fly. I decided to write some love stanzas instead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>CH: [E] Hey Lilee, Lilee,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo [B7]<br \/>\n[E] Hey Lilee, Lilee,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo [B7]<\/p>\n<p>Hey Lilee come dance with me,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nWe will set our spirits free,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<\/p>\n<p>In the meadow, twirl and spin,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nA dance of joy, where love begins.<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<\/p>\n<p>We will let our laughter ring,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nChase fireflies, on gentle wings,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo \u2014- CH<br \/>\nCH<br \/>\nThrough the night, we&#8217;ll laugh and play,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nMemories, in a special way.<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<\/p>\n<p>In the night, our hearts unite,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nEnchanting worlds, where dreams take flight,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<\/p>\n<p>Hand in hand, through forests deep,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nA journey for our souls to keep.<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo \u2014\u2014 CH<br \/>\nCH<br \/>\nWith every beat, our hearts align,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nA love so pure, and so divine.<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<\/p>\n<p>Through sun and rain, we will stand strong,<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo<br \/>\nAnd in each other&#8217;s arms belong.<br \/>\nHey Lilee, Lilee, Lo &#8212; CH X 3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mp3: Hey Lilee &#8211; Click To Play &#8220;Hey Lilee&#8221; is a song I played with the Limeliters on my first professional recording, &#8220;Tonight In Person.&#8221; We recorded it live at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles in July of 1960. Although I didn&#8217;t receive credit on the album, I made a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey Lilee&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","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=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9661,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}