{"id":9854,"date":"2025-05-01T08:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9854"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:10:45","slug":"i-was-born-about-10000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9854","title":{"rendered":"I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago.mp3\"><br \/>\nI Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<p>I learned this song at the Old Town School of Folk Music in the late 1950s.<br \/>\n[E] I was born ten thousand years [B7] ago<br \/>\nThere ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; in this world that [E] I don&#8217;t know<br \/>\n[A] I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing [E] ring-around-the-roses<br \/>\n[B7] And I&#8217;ll bash the guy that says [E] it isn&#8217;t so<\/p>\n<p>I taught Samson how to use his mighty hands<br \/>\nI showed Columbus where to find this land<br \/>\nAnd for Pharoah&#8217;s little kids, I went and built the Pyramids<br \/>\nAnd to the Sahara carried all the sand<\/p>\n<p>I taught Soloman his simple A-B-C&#8217;s<br \/>\nI was the first man to eat Limburger cheese<br \/>\nAnd while floatin&#8217; down the bay with Methusala one day<br \/>\nI cut his beard a-floatin&#8217; in the breeze<\/p>\n<p>I saw Nero fiddlein&#8217; when he burned up Rome<br \/>\nAnd I told him it looked like his future home<br \/>\nAnd when he had the nerve to swear, well I dragged him from his chair<br \/>\nAnd I burst a whiskey bottle on his nose<\/p>\n<p>The Queen of Sheba fell in love with me<br \/>\nWe were married up in Dublin secretly<br \/>\nBut I got tired of naggin&#8217;, so I bought a covered wagon<br \/>\nI took the wagon train to Tennessee<\/p>\n<p>I was born ten thousand years ago<br \/>\nThere ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; in the world that I don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nI saw Pater, Paul, and Moses playing ring-around-the-roses<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll bash the guy that says it isn&#8217;t so\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago &#8211; Click To Play I learned this song at the Old Town School of Folk Music in the late 1950s. [E] I was born ten thousand years [B7] ago There ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; in this world that [E] I don&#8217;t know [A] I saw Pater, Paul, and Moses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago&#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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854","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=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9858,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions\/9858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}