{"id":9884,"date":"2025-07-01T06:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:14:10","slug":"bum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9884","title":{"rendered":"BUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bum.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Bum.m4a\"><br \/>\nHallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is an old song Roud 7992 from the 1890&#8217;s. Carl Sandburg included it in his anthology &#8220;The American Songbook&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n[G] Rejoice and be glad, for the [Em] springtime has come<br \/>\n[G] We can throw down our shovels and [D] go on the bum<\/p>\n<p>[G] Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum<br \/>\nHallelujah, [D] bum again<br \/>\n[G] Hallelujah, give us [C] a handout<br \/>\n[D] To revive us [G] again<\/p>\n<p>The springtime has come and I&#8217;m just out of jail<br \/>\nWithout any money, without any bail<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum<br \/>\nHallelujah, bum again<br \/>\nHallelujah, give us a handout<br \/>\nTo revive us again<\/p>\n<p>I went to a house and I rapped on the door<br \/>\nAnd the lady says, &#8220;bum, bum, you&#8217;ve been here before&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum<br \/>\nHallelujah, bum again<br \/>\nHallelujah, give us a handout<br \/>\nTo revive us again<\/p>\n<p>I went to a house and I asked for some bread<br \/>\nAnd the lady says, &#8220;bum, bum, the baker is dead&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum<br \/>\nHallelujah, bum again<br \/>\nHallelujah, give us a handout<br \/>\nTo revive us again<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you work like other men do<br \/>\nNow, how can I work when there&#8217;s no work to do?<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum<br \/>\nHallelujah, bum again<br \/>\nHallelujah, give us a handout<br \/>\nTo revive us again<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you save all the money you earn?<br \/>\nIf I didn&#8217;t eat, I&#8217;d have money to burn<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum<br \/>\nHallelujah, bum again<br \/>\nHallelujah, give us a handout<br \/>\nTo revive us again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a bum &#8211; Click To Play This is an old song Roud 7992 from the 1890&#8217;s. Carl Sandburg included it in his anthology &#8220;The American Songbook&#8221; Lyrics: \u00a0 [G] Rejoice and be glad, for the [Em] springtime has come [G] We can throw down our shovels and [D] go on the bum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BUM&#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":[39,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884","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=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9889,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions\/9889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}