{"id":2187,"date":"2023-10-22T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=2187"},"modified":"2023-10-22T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T12:24:25","slug":"lake-placid-blues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=2187","title":{"rendered":"Lake Placid Blues\u00a0"},"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-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tony Joe White - Lake Placid Blues (LIVE)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7yl0PHaVY0?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><br>{Needs a work-trough}<br>002200<br>A<br>[A]At the time I was [G]too young for the [A]men<br>But [A]it&#8217;s become much [G]clearer through the [A]years<br>[A]We gathered [G]round the boy in his [D]army clothes<br>Said good[C]bye and his [G]mother shed her [A]tears<br>[A]Every day she [G]watched for the [A]postman<br>But the [A]long awaited [G]letter was over[A]due<br>[A]It&#8217;s not the [G]silence that [D]makes you crazy<br>It&#8217;s the [C]sound of a [G]heart breaking in [A]two<br>[C]Then it [G]came across the [A]ocean<br>It was [C]hard to under[G]stand the awful [A]news<br>[C]I don&#8217;t know [G]why I still re[A]member<br>I [C]guess it&#8217;s just the [G]Lake Placid [A]Blues [A][G]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[A]I turned 18 and [G]left that part of the [A]country<br>[A]Went down on the [G]Padre Island [A]coast<br>[A]Of all the [G]hard times I [D]still remember<br>The repos[C]session of the [G]guitar hurt the [A]most<br>I [A]often stood in [G]line outside the [A]mission<br>And I [A]huddled there be[G]side them in the [A]rain<br>[A] A priest came [G]to the door with [D]empty eyes<br>I could [C]see he no [G]longer felt their [A]pain<br>[C]Some were [G]searchin&#8217; for for[A]giveness<br>And [C]others [G]only wanted [A]food<br>I [C]needed [G]more than I could [A]ask for<br>There is no [C]comfort with the [G]Lake Placid ABlues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A G A A G A A G D C G A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[A]It&#8217;s hard to find good [G]friends in a [A]lifetime<br>[A]You can usually [G]count &#8217;em on one [A]hand<br>I [A]shivered [G]by the fire and the [D]dawn was breakin&#8217;<br>And I [C]scattered his [G]ashes on the [A]sand<br>And the [G]silver cranes came [D]over in [A]formation<br>[G]In a sacred [D]manner they [A]flew<br>[G]And I will [D]always re[A]member<br>The [C]sky, [G]the Lake Placid [A]Blues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A G A A G A A G A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[C] [G]Lake Placid [A]Blues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C G A C G A C GA<br>[C] [G]Lake Placid [A]Blues<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Joe White {Needs a work-trough}002200A[A]At the time I was [G]too young for the [A]menBut [A]it&#8217;s become much [G]clearer through the [A]years[A]We gathered [G]round the boy in his [D]army clothesSaid good[C]bye and his [G]mother shed her [A]tears[A]Every day she [G]watched for the [A]postmanBut the [A]long awaited [G]letter was over[A]due[A]It&#8217;s not the [G]silence that [D]makes you&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=2187\" class=\"read-more\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa Lake Placid Blues\u00a0<\/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-2187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2187","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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2187\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}