{"id":941,"date":"2021-03-26T14:26:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=941"},"modified":"2021-03-26T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:26:21","slug":"poor-boy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=941","title":{"rendered":"Poor Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bukka White<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-inbaddningshanterare wp-block-embed-inbaddningshanterare wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Booker White - Poor Boy Long Way from Home\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N0jRX69mxcE?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>Open D, Cross-note<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me and poor boy we were travellin\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travellin\u2019 a long way from home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me and poor boy we got forlorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got pulled off and fell a\u2019bound<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dear mother she got worried<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we were down on that lil\u2019 farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother she called that farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they told her they hadn\u2019t seen felled abound<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dear mother got on the phone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she called down on that little farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When my mother talked to the sargeant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wasn\u2019t no have mercy on that bill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well the sargeant told my mother<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would take two hundred dollar bills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We didn\u2019t have no one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To come-and-go dollar bill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poor boy he got worried<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poor boy cus and breakin\u2019 down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I said \u201cpoor boy don\u2019t worry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our mother gonna get us out of prison bount\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh my mother she got worried<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She couldn\u2019t get them two hundred dollar bills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So early one Sunday morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother she came down on that farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well the sargeant met my dear mother<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He met her at the gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother she told the sargeant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She didn\u2019t even have no two hundred dollar bills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well my mother she kneeled down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She kneeled down on her knees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh my mother told the sargeant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would he please, sir, have mercy on poor me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dear mother she started cryin\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old sargeant he broke down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said \u201cfeed boy please promise me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will not hobo on my train.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I said listen my brother poor boy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t be worried and cryin\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somebody, somebody somewhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gonna get us out of prison-bound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bukka White Open D, Cross-note Me and poor boy we were travellin\u2019 Travellin\u2019 a long way from home Me and poor boy we got forlorn We got pulled off and fell a\u2019bound &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; My dear mother she got worried When we were down on that lil\u2019 farm My mother she called that farm And they&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=941\" class=\"read-more\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa Poor Boy<\/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-941","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/941\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}