{"id":272,"date":"2006-11-05T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=272"},"modified":"2015-10-29T23:10:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T06:10:34","slug":"this-time-tomorrow-i-reckon-where-ill-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/11\/05\/this-time-tomorrow-i-reckon-where-ill-be\/","title":{"rendered":"This time tomorrow, I reckon where I&#8217;ll be&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/KyleHangingTree.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Dooley\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s Public Domain Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I just declared it.<\/p>\n<p>So, today&#8217;s entry is the traditional folk classic (or an abbreviated, radically reworked version thereof), &#8220;Tom Dooley,&#8221; a song of love, betrayal, murder&#8230; and possibly deception and cover-up, depending on what back-story you buy into.<\/p>\n<p>This rather irreverent (and remarkably sloppy) version is a veritable simulation of being stuck in a backroom jam session at a party circa 19-something-or-other with me behind the guitar (and me on some rather chaos-driven bongos&#8230; obviously, it&#8217;s kind of a cubist, asynchronous simulation).<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-272-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TomDooley_TKMajorAYoS20061105\/2006-11-02-AYoS_PD_Tom_Dooley.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TomDooley_TKMajorAYoS20061105\/2006-11-02-AYoS_PD_Tom_Dooley.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/TomDooley_TKMajorAYoS20061105\/2006-11-02-AYoS_PD_Tom_Dooley.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TomDooley_TKMajorAYoS20061105\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tom Dooley<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Traditional)<\/p>\n<p>Hang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nHang down your head and cry<br \/>\nHang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<\/p>\n<p>I met her on the mountain, there I took her life<br \/>\nMet her on the mountain, stabbed her with my knife<\/p>\n<p>Hang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nHang down your head and cry<br \/>\nHang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<\/p>\n<p>This time tomorrow,<br \/>\nreckon where I\u2019ll be<br \/>\nHadn\u2019t been for Grayson,<br \/>\nI\u2019d-a been in Tennessee<\/p>\n<p>Hang down your head your head Dooley and cry<br \/>\nHang down your head and cry ah poor boy, ah well-ah<br \/>\nHang down your head your head Dooley and cry<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<\/p>\n<p>Hang down your head your head Dooley and cry<br \/>\nHang down your head and cry<br \/>\nHang down your head your head Dooley and cry<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<\/p>\n<p>This time tomorrow,<br \/>\nreckon where I\u2019ll be<br \/>\nDown in some lonesome valley<br \/>\nhangin\u2019 from a white oak tree<\/p>\n<p>Hang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nHang down your head and cry<br \/>\nHang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<\/p>\n<p>Hang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nHang down your head and cry<br \/>\nHang down your head, Tom Dooley<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<br \/>\nPoor boy, you\u2019re bound to die<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s Public Domain Sunday. I just declared it. So, today&#8217;s entry is the traditional folk classic (or an abbreviated, radically reworked version thereof), &#8220;Tom Dooley,&#8221; a song of love, betrayal, murder&#8230; and possibly deception and cover-up, depending on what back-story you buy into. This rather irreverent (and remarkably sloppy) version is a veritable simulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,452],"tags":[605,604,603,602,601,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}