{"id":3971,"date":"2009-07-07T22:50:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2009-07-08T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:04:53","slug":"country-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Country anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It ain&#8217;t writ by Jewel, nor by Willie Nelson neither. But here&#8217;s a genuine country anthem with lyrics by Indiana resident Jean (based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=3946#comment-33366\">this comment<\/a>), and tune by me. It&#8217;s a little ditty we call &#8220;(I Was) Standin on the Side of Love,&#8221; an it goes like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/standingonthesideoflove.mp3'>(I Was) Standin on the Side of Love<\/a> (crappy MP3 of a crappy MIDI version of the tune and chords)<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/standingonthesideoflove.pdf'>(I Was) Standin on the Side of Love<\/a> (PDF of lead sheet, with tune and lyrics)<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230; the karaoke version, so you can sing along! MP3 file with country guitar, bass, and drum with occasional banjo and mandolin, and an &#8220;oo&#8221; track that you can sing along to. Lyrics are below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/standinonthesideoflove.mp3'>(I Was) Standing on the Side of Love\/karaoke version<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Lyrics &#8212; long dashes show where you hold a word over two notes.<\/p>\n<p>I was standing on the side of love,<br \/>\nI was standing on the side of love,<br \/>\nI was standing on the side of love,<br \/>\nFixin to hitch a ride out of town.<br \/>\nStandin on the side of love,<br \/>\nMe and my dog, Big Ol&#8217; Blue,<br \/>\nWe had our hopes an nothin more<br \/>\nWaitin on the side of love.<\/p>\n<p>(banjo)<\/p>\n<p>I had <strong>my<\/strong> dog Blue and one old glove,<br \/>\nI had <strong>my<\/strong> dog Blue and one old glove,<br \/>\nI had <strong>my<\/strong> dog Blue and one old glove,<br \/>\nMy heart on my sleeve, and I &#8212; was down.<br \/>\nStandin on the side of love,<br \/>\nMe and my dog, Big Ol&#8217; Blue,<br \/>\nWe had our hopes an nothin more<br \/>\nWaitin on the side of love.<\/p>\n<p>(mandolin, then bridge&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Woo, ooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.<br \/>\nWoo, ooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.<br \/>\nWoo, ooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.<br \/>\nStandin on the side of love.<\/p>\n<p>(banjo)<\/p>\n<p>A &#8212; semi stopped an picked us up,<br \/>\nSaid a semi stopped an picked us up,<br \/>\nSaid a semi stopped an picked us up,<br \/>\nWe headed down that road &#8212; of love.<br \/>\nStandin on the side of love,<br \/>\nMe and my dog, Big Ol&#8217; Blue,<br \/>\nWe had our hopes an nothin more<br \/>\nWaitin on the side of love.<\/p>\n<p>(mandolin)<\/p>\n<p>Woo, ooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.<br \/>\nWoo, ooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.<br \/>\nWoo, ooo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.<br \/>\nStandin on the side of love.<br \/>\nStandin on the side of love.<br \/>\nStandin on the side of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It ain&#8217;t writ by Jewel, nor by Willie Nelson neither. But here&#8217;s a genuine country anthem with lyrics by Indiana resident Jean (based on this comment), and tune by me. It&#8217;s a little ditty we call &#8220;(I Was) Standin on the Side of Love,&#8221; an it goes like this: (I Was) Standin on the Side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}