{"id":240,"date":"2006-07-12T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T18:42:51","slug":"when-they-tell-you-its-time-to-leave-by-god-then-its-time-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/07\/12\/when-they-tell-you-its-time-to-leave-by-god-then-its-time-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"When they tell you it’s time to leave, by God, then it’s time to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"An<\/p>\n

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S<\/span>torytellers and poets have twisted literature around the lonely figure of the fallen angel since people started telling stories.<\/p>\n

There’s something about that driven and tragic flight from grace that resonates with the moody and the manic and the wistfully philosophical, as well.<\/p>\n

Why would someone leave paradise?<\/p>\n

Why would someone turn his back on love and peace beyond knowledge only to flee to a world of desire, pain, and endless longing?<\/p>\n

Why not?<\/p>\n

Heaven always looked pretty boring to this tragic, moody poet…<\/p>\n\n

Internet Archive page for this recording<\/span><\/a>
\nprevious AYoS version<\/a><\/p>\n

ANGEL’S VACATION<\/span><\/p>\n

He tried to do what was right
\nbut it always turned out wrong
\nthe heavenly host was not impressed
\nand he had to blow out of town<\/p>\n

he came down to earth near Phoenix
\nin the middle of the summertime
\nhe walked to the first bar he saw
\nand ordered whiskey, beer, and wine<\/p>\n

An angel came down from heaven<\/span>
\nhoping to get away<\/span>
\nhe stewed in the hotel bar all night<\/span>
\nand baked by the pool all day<\/span><\/p>\n

He pushed the desk clerk to a breakdown
\nand drove the other guests away
\nhe punched out the hotel detective
\nand ran off with the pretty dark eyed maid<\/p>\n

They laid out on the lam for 40 days and nights
\nand on the 41st they had to rest
\nthe pretty dark eyed maid was all worn out
\nand the angel was scared to death<\/p>\n

he knew they’d have no trouble tracking him down
\nangels have this certain glow
\nand when they tell you it’s time to leave,
\nby God, then it’s time to go<\/p>\n

An angel came down from heaven<\/span>
\nhoping to get away<\/span>
\nhe stewed in the hotel bar all night<\/span>
\nand baked by the pool all day<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)1990,2005, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n

[related song: Goin’ Home<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Storytellers and poets have twisted literature around the lonely figure of the fallen angel since people started telling stories. There’s something about that driven and tragic flight from grace that resonates with the moody and the manic and the wistfully philosophical, as well. Why would someone leave paradise? Why would someone turn his back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[341,646,647,815],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}