{"id":28051,"date":"2026-01-03T23:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=28051"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:26:58","slug":"kawliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/kawliga\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawliga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Williams<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">KAW-LIGA\r\nRecorded by Hank Williams\r\nWritten by Hank Williams and Fred Rose\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nKaw-liga was a wooden Indian standing by the door.\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nHe fell in love with an Indian maiden over in the antique store.\r\n                                                 <span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"B7\">E7<\/span>\r\nKaw-liga\u2026\u2026., just stood there and never let it show,\r\n                                 <span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nSo she could never answer yes or no.\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nHe always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tommy hawk.\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nThe maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped someday he'd talk.\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nKaw liga, too stubborn to ever show a sign,\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"B7\">E7<\/span>\r\nBecause his heart was made of knotty pine.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"E\">A<\/span>\r\nPoor ol' Kaw liga, he never got a kiss.\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"A\">D<\/span>\r\nPoor ol' Kaw liga, he don't know what he missed.\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"E\">A<\/span>                                  <span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"B7\">E7<\/span>\r\nIs it any wonder that his face is red\u2026\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nKaw-liga, that poor ol' wooden head.\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nKaw-liga was a lonely Indian, never went nowhere.\r\n<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nHis heart was set on the Indian maid with the coal black hair.\r\n                                             <span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"B7\">E7<\/span>\r\nKaw-liga, just stood there and never let it show,\r\n                                 <span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"Em\">Am<\/span>\r\nSo she could never answer yes or no.\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nAm\r\nAnd then one day a wealthy customer bought the Indian maid,\r\nAm\r\nAnd took her, oh, so far away, but ol' Kaw liga stayed.\r\nAm                                              E7\r\nKaw liga, just stands there as lonely as can be,\r\nAm\r\nAnd wishes he was still an old pine tree.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nA\r\nPoor ol' Kaw liga, he never got a kiss.\r\nD\r\nPoor ol' Kaw liga, he don't know what he missed.\r\nA                                  E7\r\nIs it any wonder that his face is red\u2026\r\nAm\r\nKaw-liga, that poor ol' wooden head.<\/pre>\n<div class=\"vxv2A\">X<\/div>\n<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Williams &nbsp; KAW-LIGA Recorded by Hank Williams Written by Hank Williams and Fred Rose [Verse 1] Am Kaw-liga was a wooden Indian standing by the door. Am He fell in love with an Indian maiden over in the antique store. E7 Kaw-liga\u2026\u2026., just stood there and never let it &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/kawliga\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kawliga<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28051","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=28051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28052,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28051\/revisions\/28052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}