{"id":1136,"date":"2016-05-10T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2018-12-01T18:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T00:45:32","slug":"jimmie-rodgers-last-train-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/jimmie-rodgers-last-train-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Rodgers&#8217; Last Train Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/songs\/20160504%20-%20Kay%20Buena%20-%20Jimmie%20Rodgers'%20Last%20Train%20Home.mp3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/songs\/20160504%20-%20Kay%20Buena%20-%20Jimmie%20Rodgers'%20Last%20Train%20Home.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-939\" src=\"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fueneraltrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long ago in a Southern State,<br \/>\nKnown as Mississippi-\u00e9<br \/>\nTwas a rambling man with a sunny smile<br \/>\nWho could sing &amp; make up songs most effort-less-ly<\/p>\n<p>Like a bird can fly through the empty sky<br \/>\nAnd the flowers bloom with a sweet perfume<br \/>\nWas a natural fact with Jimmie Rodgers tunes<br \/>\nY\u2019 left your troubles back in the other room<br \/>\nWhen the brakeman sang a yodel refrain<br \/>\nYou got your own free ride on a magic train<\/p>\n<p>Oh lee a lay eee, Ah lee a lay eee<br \/>\nYoda dee a lay ee, Dah lay eee Dah lay eee, Yoda lay eee<\/p>\n<p>It don\u2019t matter who you are or if you\u2019re troubled in your mind<br \/>\nLeave your worries at the station and your sorrow behind<br \/>\nWith the rhythm of the rails and the clickin\u2019 of the track<br \/>\nPut your smile on forward got no turnin\u2019 back<\/p>\n<p>Like a bird can fly through the empty sky<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was a long hard day back in 33<br \/>\nWhen the Lord took Jimmie with that old T.B.<br \/>\nThey put his poor old body on a train so long<br \/>\nAll the people come to see him take his last train home<\/p>\n<p>Like a bird can fly through the empty sky<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some where out there in no where that distant train still rides<br \/>\nWhere the coyote sings his lonesome song<br \/>\nAnd the birds harmonize up in the sky<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been 70 years but you can hear the cry<br \/>\nOf his last blue yodel as he passes by<\/p>\n<p>Oh lee a lay eee, Ah lee a lay eee<br \/>\nYoda dee a lay ee, Dah lay eee Dah lay eee, Yoda lay eee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<b>\u00a9<\/b>\u00a02017 Caroline Abbitt Sauer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP3 Long ago in a Southern State, Known as Mississippi-\u00e9 Twas a rambling man with a sunny smile Who could sing &amp; make up songs most effort-less-ly Like a bird can fly through the empty sky And the flowers bloom with a sweet perfume Was a natural fact with Jimmie Rodgers tunes Y\u2019 left your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgn.kaybuena.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}