{"id":98,"date":"2005-12-22T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=98"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:02:19","slug":"rambler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/12\/22\/rambler\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess every 22 year old singer-songwriter goes through a phase of writing about being a broken down middle-aged man. But looking at this song from a certain perspective<\/span> these many decades later, I can’t help but crack the hell up.<\/p>\n

I mean, when I wrote the line, “Left my home and my woman about four years ago” — it was in my mind that that seemed like a really long time ago<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I was trying to suggest how fast this guy’s descent was, I can’t really<\/span> tell you anymore. At any rate, I do remember I was trying to write a counterpoint to what seemed like a rash of songs on the radio at the time (1973ish<\/span>) that celebrated ramblin’<\/span> and gamblin’ — <\/span>though I can only think of one or two, offhand, now.<\/p>\n

I wanted to show, you know, the dark side<\/span> of ramblin’ and gamblin’<\/span>…<\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Rambler\/AYoS20051221_Rambler.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

RAMBLER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Left my home and my woman
\nabout four years ago
\nmostly don’t know when to quit
\nbut then I packed up my losses
\nand stumbled out on the road<\/p>\n

Well I’m a rambler, I’m a gambler<\/span>
\nI’m just a shambles of a man<\/span>
\nI’m stumbling; my lifes crumblin<\/span>
\nI’m just another loser on the lam<\/span><\/p>\n

If the stakes are low then the time is right
\nI’m a fool for a penny-ante game
\nMay be gambling with my life
\nbut it’s just small change all the same<\/p>\n

Well I’m a rambler, I’m a gambler…<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been beaten, I’ve been cheated
\nI’ve been shot at from Arkansas to Vietnam
\nI been shafted, I been laughed at
\nI been out-casted but I still don give a damn<\/p>\n

Well I’m a rambler, I’m a gambler<\/span>
\nI’m just a shambles of a man<\/span>
\nI’m stumbling; my lifes crumblin<\/span>
\nI’m just another loser on the lam<\/span><\/p>\n

(C) 1973 TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess every 22 year old singer-songwriter goes through a phase of writing about being a broken down middle-aged man. But looking at this song from a certain perspective these many decades later, I can’t help but crack the hell up. I mean, when I wrote the line, “Left my home and my woman about […]<\/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":[990,577,991,471,470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}