{"id":9813,"date":"2025-01-01T07:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2025-01-01T07:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:20:55","slug":"never-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9813","title":{"rendered":"Never Go Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Latin_School.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Never_Go_Back.mp3\"><br \/>\nNever Go Back &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is a &#8220;contemporary&#8221; folk song that I wrote around 40 years ago. It&#8217;s a  about the disappointment I&#8217;ve felt going back to old places, only to find buildings torn down and replaced by new trendy hotels with neon signs. Hoping to see old friends but finding out they had moved or passes away. Nothing stays the same, you really can&#8217;t go back.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s better to enjoy the present, the only time that truly exists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>[G] Walked through the streets of my old town<br \/>\nLatin school had long been torn down<br \/>\n[C] Neon lights flickered from a [G] new hotel <\/p>\n<p>Turned down the road where Cathy dwelt<br \/>\nOne time she&#8217;d had me in her spell<br \/>\nNeon lights flickered from a new hotel<\/p>\n<p>CH:  [F] Sometimes it\u2019s [Am] better not  go [Em] back<br \/>\n[F] My advice &#8211; don\u2019t ever [Em] go back<\/p>\n<p>Three days of Fall vacation<br \/>\nStrolled passed the railroad station<br \/>\nNeon lights flickered from a new hotel<\/p>\n<p>Doorman once worked the railroad<br \/>\nTold me his line had long been sold<br \/>\nNeon lights flickered from a new hotel<br \/>\nCH:<br \/>\nBridge:<br \/>\n[C] Hold [D] on to [F] precious [EM] memories<br \/>\n[C] Don\u2019t [D] let them [F] slip your [Em] mind<br \/>\n[C] Never [D] go [F] back to [Em] capture them<br \/>\n[F] Everything is bound to change [Em] in time<br \/>\n[F] Everything is bound to fade [Em] in time<\/p>\n<p>This trip was meant to take me back<br \/>\nJust like an ancient almanac<br \/>\nNeon lights flickered from a new hotel<\/p>\n<p>I longed to see my dear old friends<br \/>\nLike looking backward through a lens<br \/>\nNeon lights flickered from a new hotel<br \/>\nCH:<br \/>\nBridge:<br \/>\n[C] Hold [D] on to [F] precious [EM] memories<br \/>\n[C] Don\u2019t [D] let them [F] slip your [Em] mind<br \/>\n[C] Never [D]  go [F] back to [Em] capture them<br \/>\n[F] Everything is bound to change [Em] in time<br \/>\n[F] Everything is bound to fade [Em] in time<br \/>\nCH: X 2<br \/>\n\u00a9 2024 McGuinn Music\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Never Go Back &#8211; Click To Play This is a &#8220;contemporary&#8221; folk song that I wrote around 40 years ago. It&#8217;s a about the disappointment I&#8217;ve felt going back to old places, only to find buildings torn down and replaced by new trendy hotels with neon signs. Hoping to see old friends but finding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Never Go Back&#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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813","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=9813"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}