{"id":314,"date":"2021-05-10T03:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=314"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:39:27","slug":"garden-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/garden-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/span> Garden Party,<\/span> Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon Band, 1972<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to a garden party<\/span>
\nTo reminisce with my old friends<\/span>
\nA chance to share old memories<\/span>
\nAnd play our songs again<\/span><\/p>\n

When I got to the garden party<\/span>
\nThey all knew my name<\/span>
\nBut no one recognized me<\/span>
\nI didn’t look the same<\/span><\/p>\n

But it’s<\/span> all right now<\/span>
\nI learned my lesson well<\/span>
\nYou see, you can’t please everyone<\/span>
\nSo you got to please yourself<\/span><\/p>\n

People came from miles around<\/span>
\nEveryone was there<\/span>
\nYoko brought her walrus<\/span>
\nThere was magic in the air<\/span><\/p>\n

And over in the corner<\/span>
\nMuch to my surprise<\/span>
\nMr. Hughes hid in Dylan’s shoes<\/span>
\nWearing his disguise<\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS<\/span>]<\/span><\/p>\n

I played them all the old songs<\/span>
\nI thought that’s why they came<\/span>
\nNo one heard the music<\/span>
\nWe didn’t look the same<\/span><\/p>\n

I said hello to “Mary Lou”<\/span>
\nShe belongs to me<\/span>
\nWhen I sang a song about a honky-tonk<\/span>
\nIt was time to leave<\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS<\/span>]<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone opened up a closet door<\/span>
\nAnd out stepped Johnny B. Goode<\/span>
\nPlaying guitar like a ringing a bell<\/span>
\nAnd lookin’ like he should<\/span><\/p>\n

If you gotta play at garden parties<\/span>
\nI wish you a lotta luck<\/span>
\nBut if memories were all I sang<\/span>
\nI’d rather drive a truck<\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS<\/span>]<\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS<\/span>]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C Garden Party, Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon Band, 1972 I went to a garden party To reminisce with my old friends A chance to share old memories And play our songs again When I got to the garden party They all knew my name But no one recognized me … CLICK TO VIEW SONGGarden Party<\/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":[133,126,116,117,123,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27589,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/27589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}