{"id":902,"date":"2010-04-29T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:45:14","slug":"the-smoke-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Smoke Song&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another one I came up with while driving around.  The melody feels really familiar and old timey.  I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s some standard melody or what.  Usually I don&#8217;t feel like what I&#8217;m singing is anything I&#8217;ve heard before, but this time it did.<br \/>\n[audio: http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/smoke.mp3]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/smoke.mp3\">Quicktime or Download Link<\/a><br \/>\nLyrics:<br \/>\nThere\u2019s smoke in the forest<br \/>\nWhere the forest ought to be<br \/>\nI ought to climb down this old burning tree<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m looking out the ocean<br \/>\nLooking out to sea<br \/>\nBut there\u2019s smoke in the water<br \/>\nwhere my boat used to be<br \/>\nBoat used to be<br \/>\nBoat used to be<\/p>\n<p>Now sent my love a letter<br \/>\nsaid won\u2019t you marry me<br \/>\nBut she burned the letter up now the smoke is all I see<br \/>\nAlways love my true love<br \/>\nBut she don\u2019t love me<br \/>\nCause there\u2019s smoke in her heart<br \/>\nIn the place I ought to be<br \/>\nI ought to be<br \/>\nI ought to be<\/p>\n<p>In the forest flows a river<br \/>\nWhere the forest won\u2019t grow<br \/>\nAnd the cloudy smoke above is the river burned below<br \/>\nSome will go to heaven<br \/>\nSome straight in the ground<br \/>\nMe, I choose the fire<br \/>\nSo my smoke can walk around<br \/>\nCan walk around<br \/>\nCan walk around<\/p>\n<p>If she ever find this forest<br \/>\nand climbs up in my tree<br \/>\nSees smoke rising up from the forest and the sea<br \/>\nMaybe I\u2019m the smoke from the boat or the tree<br \/>\nBut the smoke in her heart<br \/>\nIs the smoke I want to be<br \/>\nI want to be<br \/>\nI want to be<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s smoke in the forest<br \/>\nWhere the forest ought to be<br \/>\nI ought to climb down this old burning tree<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m looking out the ocean<br \/>\nLooking out to sea<br \/>\nBut there\u2019s smoke in the water<br \/>\nwhere my boat used to be<br \/>\nBoat used to be<br \/>\nBoat used to be<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it started, while driving in the car:<br \/>\n[audio: http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Smokesample.mp3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another one I came up with while driving around. The melody feels really familiar and old timey. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s some standard melody or what. Usually I don&#8217;t feel like what I&#8217;m singing is anything I&#8217;ve heard before, but this time it did. [audio: http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/smoke.mp3] Quicktime or Download Link Lyrics: There\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=902\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Smoke Song&#8221;<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,35],"tags":[1073,5,1075,6,156,82,8,1070,4,1068,176,73,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}