{"id":513,"date":"2010-11-02T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:32","slug":"farewell-dear-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/farewell-dear-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Dear Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>From Sam Hazel, Mississippi<\/h5>\n<p>Sam Hazel learned this song on Ohio River steamboats working between Louisville, Kentucky and Evansville, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Recorded in 1939 by Herbert Halpert under joint sponsorship of the Library of Congress and the WPA. Recording now held by the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. AFS 3096 B2.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Farewell, dear friends, I&#8217;m bound for to leave you<br \/>\nPerhaps you&#8217;ll miss me when I&#8217;m gone.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a ring, love, please accept it<br \/>\nOh put it on your finger fair<br \/>\nAnd when I&#8217;m gone and quite forgotten<br \/>\nLook on this ring, love, and I&#8217;ll be there.<\/li>\n<li>Now some will say this boy&#8217;s in danger<br \/>\nAnd others will say he&#8217;s been gone too long<br \/>\nAnd others will say it&#8217;s some bad action<br \/>\nHas caused this boy so far from home.<\/li>\n<li>I thank the Lord I never did harm you<br \/>\nNeither did I wish you any harm<br \/>\nSo as it is I&#8217;ll freely spend it<br \/>\nSo merry I go marchin&#8217; on.<\/li>\n<li>I wish I was a little sparrow<br \/>\nOr had the wings of a turtle dove<br \/>\nI&#8217;d fly away from the land of sorrow<br \/>\nAnd settle down with the girl I love.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d ask her who she wanted to marry<br \/>\nOr who it was that she wanted to see<br \/>\nAll in her bosom I would flutter<br \/>\nAll with my little tender wing.<\/li>\n<li>But alas I&#8217;m not a tiny sparrow<br \/>\nNor have I wings of a turtle dove<br \/>\nSo Lord I&#8217;ll sit and sing in sorrow<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll weep and pass my troubles by.<\/li>\n<li>Farewell, dear friends, I&#8217;m bound for to leave you<br \/>\nPerhaps you&#8217;ll miss me when I&#8217;m gone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sam Hazel, Mississippi Sam Hazel learned this song on Ohio River steamboats working between Louisville, Kentucky and Evansville, Indiana. Source: Recorded in 1939 by Herbert Halpert under joint sponsorship of the Library of Congress and the WPA. Recording now held by the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center at the Library&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}