{"id":51,"date":"2013-04-24T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/?p=51"},"modified":"2013-04-24T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T10:40:24","slug":"51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Granny&#8217;s Canary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Granny&#8217;s Canary<\/strong> <em>(By R Notman &#038; I Hamilton 1997)<\/em> Music Lost to Time but may have been G C D and Em and possibly a trip to F and Am<\/p>\n<p>They shut down the mine after 400 years,<br \/>\nThe men and the bairns and sheep were in tears<br \/>\nThe bosses had taken our living away<br \/>\nbut granny&#8217;s canary had something to say<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/>\n<em>The hills are so bonny<br \/>\nand the river is wet<br \/>\nyer no going away<br \/>\ncause we&#8217;re no finished yet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All the men they got drunk and all had a fight<br \/>\nBlood ran through the street on that most awful night<br \/>\nthe policemen they came and took them away<br \/>\nand the judge in the court he had something to say<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>The women they all had to go on the game<br \/>\nthey waited all night but nobody came<br \/>\ncause the men were in prison for many a day<br \/>\nand roach in the cell he had something to say<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>The men were all hung on a braw moonlicht nicht<br \/>\nthe sheep were kebabed on the end of a stick<br \/>\nthe women cried so much the bairns they all drowned<br \/>\nand from granny&#8217;s canary did not come a sound<\/p>\n<p>and the women they all died from food poisoning<br \/>\nas they ate the canary that could no longer sing.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>This is the last bit, Och Aye!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granny&#8217;s Canary (By R Notman &#038; I Hamilton 1997) Music Lost to Time but may have been G C D and Em and possibly a trip to F and Am They shut down the mine after 400 years, The men and the bairns and sheep were in tears The bosses had taken our living away\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/?p=51\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iainhamilton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}