{"id":2184,"date":"2023-10-22T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=2184"},"modified":"2023-10-22T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:58:53","slug":"roosevelt-ira-lee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=2184","title":{"rendered":"Roosevelt &#038; Ira Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tony Joe White<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tony Joe White - Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gO3GLUHUQoQ?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<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>(Spoken word:)<br>This is about two cats<br>They&#8217;re sitting down by a river in the swamps<br>They&#8217;re sitting on a log<br>One of them is kind of a big fellow<br>And the other one is a little bit smaller and he&#8217;s got a long-billed cap<br>And they&#8217;re sitting there pondering on what they&#8217;re gonna do for the night<br>And anything the big guy decides on the little guy&#8217;s for<br>&#8217;Cause he digs him he&#8217;s cool<br>So it&#8217;s called Roosevelt and Ira Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Blues riff in E)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[E]The river was dark and muddy<br>And the moon was on the rise<br>And all of the creatures in the swampland<br>Had woke up to feed for the night<br>Roosevelt and Ira Lee were sitting there on a log<br>Ira Lee turned to Roosevelt and said<br>I&#8217;d sure like to have a mess of bullfrog<br>He said [E]yeah y[G]eah la<br>[A]would sure would taste [E]good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[E]So they slipped on their rubber boots<br>And walked down to the water&#8217;s edge<br>And right away they knew that the night would be a bummer<br>&#8217;Cause Ira Lee stepped on a water moccasin he said<br>[E]ugh [G]ugh [A]lawd<br>Somebody [E]help me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[E]Ira Lee turned to Roosevelt when he quit his screaming and kicking<br>And he said let&#8217;s forget about those bullfrog legs<br>And go out and steal us some chickens<br>And Old Roosevelt said like this now<br>[E]Yeah y[G]eah o[A]oh it sure would taste [E]good<br>Yes it would, I love my chicken<br>The river was dark and muddy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Joe White (Spoken word:)This is about two catsThey&#8217;re sitting down by a river in the swampsThey&#8217;re sitting on a logOne of them is kind of a big fellowAnd the other one is a little bit smaller and he&#8217;s got a long-billed capAnd they&#8217;re sitting there pondering on what they&#8217;re gonna do for the nightAnd&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=2184\" class=\"read-more\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa Roosevelt &#038; Ira Lee<\/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-2184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2184\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}