{"id":20823,"date":"2024-06-18T04:49:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T04:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:48:43","slug":"follow-the-drinking-gourd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/follow-the-drinking-gourd\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Drinking Gourd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am<\/span>\u200b\u200bFollow the Drinking Gourd<\/span>,<\/span> Jefferson Starship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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[Intro]\r\nAm<\/span> D<\/span> Am<\/span> x2\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nAm<\/span>         D<\/span>        Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\nAm<\/span>         D<\/span>       Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n        C<\/span>          G<\/span>              Am<\/span>           D<\/span>\r\nFor the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom\r\nAm<\/span>          D<\/span>       Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\nAm<\/span>                       Am<\/span>\r\nWhen the sun comes back, and the first quail calls\r\nAm<\/span>         D<\/span>       Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n        C<\/span>          G<\/span>              Am<\/span>           D<\/span>\r\nFor the old man is waiting just to carry you to freedom\r\nAm<\/span>          D<\/span>       Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nAm<\/span>        D<\/span>        Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\nAm<\/span>          D<\/span>       Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n        C<\/span>          G<\/span>              Am<\/span>           D<\/span>\r\nFor the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom\r\nAm<\/span>          D<\/span>       Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nAm<\/span>\r\nWell the river bank makes a mighty good road\r\nD<\/span>          Am<\/span>       D<\/span>\r\nThe dead trees will show you the way\r\n        C<\/span>          G<\/span>              Am<\/span>           D<\/span>\r\nLeft foot, peg foot, travelin' on\r\nAm<\/span>          D<\/span>       Am<\/span>\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nAm        D        Am\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\nAm          D       Am\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n        C          G              Am           D\r\nFor the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom\r\nAm          D       Am\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nAm\r\nNow the river ends between two hills,\r\nAm          D       Am\r\nFollow the drinking gourd.\r\n  C             G            Am     Em\r\nThere's another river on the other side,\r\nAm          D       Am\r\nFollow the drinking gourd.\r\n         C          G              Am           D\r\nThere's another river on the other side\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nAm        D        Am\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\nAm          D       Am\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n        C          G              Am           D\r\nFor the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom\r\nAm          D       Am\r\nFollow the drinkin' gourd\r\n \r\nContinue A, Em, A<\/pre>\n
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Am\u200b\u200bFollow the Drinking Gourd, Jefferson Starship [Intro] Am D Am x2 { CHORUS } Am D Am Follow the drinkin’ gourd Am D Am Follow the drinkin’ gourd C G Am D For the old man is comin’ just to carry you to freedom Am D Am Follow the drinkin’ … CLICK TO VIEW SONGFollow the Drinking Gourd<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28768,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions\/28768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}