{"id":760,"date":"2020-05-06T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=760"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:37:58","slug":"our-town-iris-dement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Our Town. (Iris Dement)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Just down the street beside that red neon light<br>That&#8217;s where I met my baby on one hot summer night<br>He was the tender and I ordered a beer<br>It&#8217;s been forty years and I&#8217;m still sat here <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can see the sun&#8217;s settin&#8217; fast<br>And just like they say nothing good ever lasts<br>Goodnight and kiss me goodbye but hold on to your lover<br>Cause your heart&#8217;s Gonna cry<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodnight  and say goodbye to our town, to our town<br>Can&#8217;t you see the sun&#8217;s settin&#8217; down on our town, on our town<br>Goodnight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s there I met my baby&#8217;s and I had my first kiss<br>Walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist<br>Over there is where I bought my first car<br>It turned over once now it won&#8217;t go far<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I can see the sun settin&#8217; fast<br>And just like they say nothing good ever lasts<br>Goodnight and kiss me goodbye but hold on to your lover<br>&#8216;Cause your heart&#8217;s gonna to die<br><br><br>I sat on the porch and watch the lightning-bugs fly<br>But I can&#8217;t see too well, for tears in my eyes<br>I&#8217;m leaving tomorrow but I don&#8217;t want to go<br>I love you my town, you&#8217;ll always live in my soul<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just down the street beside that red neon lightThat&#8217;s where I met my baby on one hot summer nightHe was the tender and I ordered a beerIt&#8217;s been forty years and I&#8217;m still sat here I can see the sun&#8217;s settin&#8217; fastAnd just like they say nothing good ever lastsGoodnight and kiss me goodbye but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Town. (Iris Dement)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}