{"id":2869,"date":"2021-10-06T05:49:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:07:33","slug":"riddle-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/riddle-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Riddle Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

I [C] gave my love a [F] cherry, that had no [C] stone<\/strong><\/span>
\nI [G] gave my love a [C] chicken, that had no [G] bone
\n<\/strong>I [G] told my love a [C] story that had no [G] end<\/strong><\/span>
\nI [Am] gave my love a [F] baby with [G] no cry- [C] -ing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

How [C] can there be a [F] cherry that has no [C] stone?<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd how [G] can there be a [C] chicken that has no [G] bone?<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd how [G] can there be a [C] story that has no [G] end?<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd how [Am] can there be a [F] baby with [G] no cry- [C] -ing?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A [C] cherry when it\u2019s [F] blooming, it has no [C] stone<\/strong><\/span>
\nA [G] chicken when it\u2019s [C] piping, it has no [G] bone<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe [G] story that I [C] love you, it has no [G] end<\/strong><\/span>
\nA [Am] baby when it\u2019s [F] sleeping, it\u2019s [G] not cry- [C] -ing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I [C] gave my love a [F] cherry, that had no [C] stone<\/strong><\/span>
\nI [G] gave my love a [C] chicken, that had no [G] bone<\/strong><\/span>
\nI [G] told my love a [C] story that had no [G] end<\/strong><\/span>
\nI [Am] gave my love a [F] baby with [G] no cry- [C] -ing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I [C] gave my love a [F] cherry, that had no [C] stone I [G] gave my love a [C] chicken, that had no [G] bone I [G] told my love a [C] story that had no [G] end I [Am] gave my love a [F] baby with [G] no … CLICK TO VIEW SONGThe Riddle Song<\/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":[24,120,133,126,265,116,117,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-ukulele-beginners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","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=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30256,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/30256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}