{"id":901,"date":"2021-03-26T13:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=901"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:45:41","slug":"my-wife-went-away-and-left-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=901","title":{"rendered":"My Wife Went Away And Left Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Charlie Poole<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-inbaddningshanterare wp-block-embed-inbaddningshanterare wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charlie Poole - My Wife Went Away and Left Me - Country Music Experience\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6dlWirwlCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>3\/4<\/em> <em>A Capo 2<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[G]My wife went away and she left me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out in this wide world [D7]alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadness and gladness she left me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She left a doggone good [G]home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote her a letter last Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sealed it with a [C]kiss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer came [G]back next [E]morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And [D7]what she said to me was [G]this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[G]When the groc\u2019ry man puts sand in the sugar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The milkman makes milk out of [D7]chalk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boys stay home with their mothers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women forget how to [G]talk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the ocean turns into corn whiskey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The railroad runs under the [C]sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the man in the moon comes [G]down in a [E]balloon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then [D7]darling, I\u2019ll come home to [G]thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[G]I sat down and wrote her another<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sealed it with my [C]fist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer was [G]mailed next [E]morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And [D7]what I said to her was [G]this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[G]When the moon turns into an apple<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a rainbow turns into a [D7]vine&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They build a steeple to heaven<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stars they all fail to [G]shine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the ocean turns into rye whiskey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes glasses to see the [C]wind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the girls quit using [G]powder and [E]paint<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then [D7]darling, I\u2019ll ask you [G] again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Poole 3\/4 A Capo 2 [G]My wife went away and she left me Out in this wide world [D7]alone Sadness and gladness she left me She left a doggone good [G]home I wrote her a letter last Tuesday Sealed it with a [C]kiss The answer came [G]back next [E]morning And [D7]what she said to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=901\" class=\"read-more\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa My Wife Went Away And Left Me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}