{"id":22774,"date":"2025-05-25T21:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T21:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=22774"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:36:19","slug":"big-city-turn-me-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/big-city-turn-me-loose\/","title":{"rendered":"BIg City Turn me Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">{artist:Merle Haggard}\r\n{key:C}\r\n\r\nI'm [C] tired of this [C7] dirty old [F] city.\r\nI'm [C] tired of too much work and never enough [G7] play.\r\nAnd I'm [C] tired of these [C7] dirty old [F] sidewalks.\r\nThink I'll [C] walk off my [G7] steady job [C] today.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHORUS - - -<\/span> \r\n\r\nBeen [C] working every-[C7]day since I was [F] twenty.\r\nHaven't [C] got a thing to show for anything I've [G7] done.\r\nThere's [C] folks who never [C7] work and they've got [F] plenty.\r\nThink it's [C] time some guys like [G7] me had some [C] fun, so\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHORUS - - - [C] Turn me loose, set me [C7] free, \r\n[F] somewhere in the middle of Mon-[C]tana.\r\nAnd give me all I've got coming to [G7] me.\r\nAnd [C] keep your retirement and your [F] so-called Social Se-[C]curity.\r\nBig city turn me [G7] loose and set me [C] free.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHey, big [C] city, turn me [G7] loose and set me [C] free.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{artist:Merle Haggard} {key:C} I&#8217;m [C] tired of this [C7] dirty old [F] city. I&#8217;m [C] tired of too much work and never enough [G7] play. And I&#8217;m [C] tired of these [C7] dirty old [F] sidewalks. Think I&#8217;ll [C] walk off my [G7] steady job [C] today. CHORUS &#8211; &#8211; &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/big-city-turn-me-loose\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BIg City Turn me Loose<\/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":[135,120,133,126,265,56,116,117,115,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774","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=22774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27536,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22774\/revisions\/27536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}