{"id":24575,"date":"2025-06-27T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=24575"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:07:02","slug":"leavin-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/leavin-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Leavin Louisiana In The Broad Daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"
LISTEN ON YOUTUBE<\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\n[C] Lord Mary took to running with a travelin man.\u00a0 Left her momma crying with her head in her hands.\u00a0 [F] Such a sad case so broken [C] hearted.<\/span>\r\n\r\nShe say [C] momma I got to go I gotta get out of here.\u00a0 I gotta get out of town I'm tired of hanging around.\u00a0 I gotta roll [F] on between the [C] ditches.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIt's just an [C] ordinary story bout the way things go.\u00a0 Round and round nobody knows,\u00a0 but the [F] highway goes on [C] forever.\u00a0 \u00a0That old [F] highway rolls on [C] forever.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLord she [C] never would have done it if she hadn't got drunk.\u00a0 If she hadn't started running with a traveling man.\u00a0 If she [F] hadn't started taking those crazy [C] chances.<\/span>\r\n\r\nShe say [C] daughter let me tell you bout the traveling kind.\u00a0 Eveywhere he's going such a very short time.\r\nHe'll be [F] long gone before you [C] know it.<\/span>\r\nHe'll be [F] long gone before you [C] know it.<\/span>\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS 1 }<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis is [C] down in the swampland anything goes.\u00a0 It's alligator bait and the bars don't close.\u00a0 \u00a0It's the [F] real thing down in [C] Louisiana.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nDid you [C] ever a Cajun when he really got mad?\u00a0 Like when he got trouble like a daughter gone bad.\u00a0 It [F] gets real hot down in [C] Louisiana.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe [C] stranger better move it or he's gonna get killed.\u00a0 He's gonna have to get it or a shotgun will.\u00a0 It ain't no [F] time for lengthy [C] speeches.\u00a0 \u00a0There ain't no [F] time for lengthy [C] speeches.<\/span>\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS 1 }  She say [Am] never have I known it when it [G] felt so good.\u00a0 \u00a0[F] Never have I knew it when I [C] knew I could.\u00a0 \u00a0[Am] Never have I done it when it [G] looked so right.\u00a0 \u00a0[F] Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIt's just an [C] ordinary story bout the way things go.\u00a0 Round and round nobody knows.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0But the [F] highway goes on [C] forever.<\/span>\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS 1 }<\/span><\/pre>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LISTEN ON YOUTUBE [C] Lord Mary took to running with a travelin man.\u00a0 Left her momma crying with her head in her hands.\u00a0 [F] Such a sad case so broken [C] hearted. She say [C] momma I got to go I gotta get out of here.\u00a0 I gotta get out … CLICK TO VIEW SONGLeavin Louisiana In The Broad Daylight<\/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":[133,126,13,179,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-emmylou-harris","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575","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=24575"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30125,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24575\/revisions\/30125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}