{"id":988,"date":"2015-03-18T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/?p=988"},"modified":"2015-03-18T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:37:16","slug":"paddys-lamentation-traditional-well-its-by-the-hush-me-boys-and-sure-thats-to-hold-your-noise-and-listen-to-poor-paddys-sad-narration-i-was-by-hunger-pressed-and-in-poverty-distressed-so-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Paddy&#8217;s Lamentation -Traditional Well it&#8217;s by the hush, me boys, and sure that&#8217;s to hold your noise And listen to poor Paddy&#8217;s sad narration I was by hunger pressed, and in poverty distressed So I took a thought I&#8217;d leave the Irish nation Here&#8217;s to you boys, now take my advice To America I&#8217;ll have ye&#8217;s not be going There is nothing here but war, where the murderin&#8217; cannons roar And I wish I was at home in dear old Dublin Well I sold me ass and cow, my little pigs and sow My little plot of land I soon did part with And me sweetheart Bid McGee, I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll never see For I left her there that morning broken-hearted Well meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o&#8217;er Our fortunes to be made we were thinkin&#8217; When we got to Yankee land, they shoved a gun into our hands Saying &#8220;Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln&#8221; General Meagher to us he said, if you get shot or lose your head Every murdered soul of youse will get a pension Well meself I lost me leg, they gave me a wooden peg, And by God this is the truth to you I mention Well I think meself in luck, if I get fed on Indian buck And old Ireland is the country I delight in With the devil, I do say, it&#8217;s curse Americay For I think I&#8217;ve had enough of your hard fightin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Facebook<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1c4nCfM\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Facebook via IFTTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestream.hausderluege.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}