{"id":27725,"date":"2025-12-24T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=27725"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:22:38","slug":"judy-im-slowly-moving-back-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/judy-im-slowly-moving-back-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy, I&#8217;m Slowly Moving Back to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4. Judy &#8211; Written by Shel Silverstein<\/p>\n<p>First Verse<\/p>\n<p>A                                                                    D<br \/>\nThe waitress with the orange hair keeps motionin&#8217; me to hurry up and leave<br \/>\nD    E<br \/>\nSo I gulp my coffee &#8211; burn my mouth &#8211; grab up my coat and slippin&#8217; out<br \/>\nE                                   A<br \/>\nI smear a streak of mustard down my sleeve<br \/>\nA<br \/>\nAnd the guy behind the register takes my bread and shakes his head<br \/>\nA                                        D<br \/>\nAnd looks at me as though I&#8217;ve blown his mind<br \/>\nD           E                                                          A<br \/>\nHey, I just come here for some coffee&#8230;hope I&#8217;m not wastin&#8217; anybody&#8217;s time<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>A   D                      A<br \/>\nAnd Judy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back to you<br \/>\nA     E                                    A<br \/>\nAnd I wish that I could say I&#8217;ll treat you better than I used to<br \/>\nA    D                                  A<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just I&#8217;m learnin&#8217; lots of things I never knew back then<br \/>\nE                      A<br \/>\nJudy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back again<br \/>\nE                      A<br \/>\nJudy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back again<\/p>\n<p>Second Verse<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nThat blue eyed barracuda smiles and tells me she could use some brand new<br \/>\nD<br \/>\nclothes<br \/>\nD   E<br \/>\nShe grabs my leg and with a wink, asks if I want another drink<br \/>\nE                                        A<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s not the campfire girl you might suppose<br \/>\nA<br \/>\nBut she&#8217;s so busy tellin&#8217; me her troubles I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s got time<br \/>\nA                                D<br \/>\nFor any kind of trouble small as mine<br \/>\nD           E                                                          A<br \/>\nHey, I just come in here for nothin&#8217;&#8230; hope I&#8217;m not wastin&#8217; anybody&#8217;s time<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>A   D                      A<br \/>\nAnd Judy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back to you<br \/>\nA     E                                    A<br \/>\nAnd I wish that I could say I&#8217;ll treat you better than I used to<br \/>\nA    D                                  A<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just I&#8217;m learnin&#8217; lots of things I never knew back then<br \/>\nE                      A<br \/>\nJudy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back again<br \/>\nE                      A<br \/>\nJudy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back again<\/p>\n<p>Third Verse<\/p>\n<p>B<br \/>\nWell I&#8217;m stopped here on the corner, when the red faced cop says move along<br \/>\nB    E<br \/>\nyour way<br \/>\nE      F#<br \/>\nBut my nose is cold and my toes are numb, I got no feeling in my thumb<br \/>\nF#                                    B<br \/>\nI think I just might stop inside that church and maybe pray<br \/>\nB<br \/>\nBut they pass the plate and they look at me when it turns out that I ain&#8217;t<br \/>\nB     E<br \/>\ngot a dime<br \/>\nE           F#<br \/>\nHey, I just come in here to talk to GOD&#8230; hope I&#8217;m not wastin&#8217; anybody&#8217;s<br \/>\nB<br \/>\ntime<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>E                          B<br \/>\nAnd Judy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back to you<br \/>\nB     F#                                   B<br \/>\nAnd I wish that I could say I&#8217;ll treat you better than I used to<br \/>\nB    E                                  B<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just I&#8217;m learnin&#8217; lots of things I never knew back then<br \/>\nF#                     B<br \/>\nJudy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back again<br \/>\nF#                     B<br \/>\nJudy I&#8217;m slowly movin&#8217; back again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4. Judy &#8211; Written by Shel Silverstein First Verse A D The waitress with the orange hair keeps motionin&#8217; me to hurry up and leave D E So I gulp my coffee &#8211; burn my mouth &#8211; grab up my coat and slippin&#8217; out E A I smear a streak &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/judy-im-slowly-moving-back-to-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judy, I&#8217;m Slowly Moving Back to You<\/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":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-hook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725","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=27725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27726,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725\/revisions\/27726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}