{"id":4562,"date":"2021-11-13T03:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:36:34","slug":"down-on-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/down-on-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Down on the Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Early in the evenin&#8217; [G] just about supper time; <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Over by the courthouse they&#8217;re [G] starting to unwind<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[F] Four kids on the corner [C] trying to bring you up.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[C] Willy picks a tune out and he [G] blows it on the [C] harp.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #ff0000; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[TURN-AROUND] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [F] Down on the [C] corner. [G] Out in the [C] street<\/strong>.<strong> \u00a0 Willy and the [F] Poor Boys are [C] playin&#8217; &#8211; <\/strong><strong>&#8211; Bring a [G] nickel, tap your [C] feet<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ C G ] Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ C G ] Blinky thumps the gut bass and solos for a while. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ F C ] Poor Boy twangs the rhythm out on his kalamazoo.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ C G ] And Willy goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[TURN-AROUND] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ C G ] You don&#8217;t need a penny just to hang around,\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ C G ] But if you&#8217;ve got a nickel, won&#8217;t you lay your money down?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ F C ] Over on the corner there&#8217;s a happy noise.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[ C G ] People come from all around to watch the magic boy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[TURN-AROUND] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; TWICE<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[C] Early in the evenin&#8217; [G] just about supper time; [C] Over by the courthouse they&#8217;re [G] starting to unwind [F] Four kids on the corner [C] trying to bring you up.\u00a0 [C] Willy picks a tune out and he [G] blows it on the [C] harp. [TURN-AROUND] &#8211; &#8211; &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/down-on-the-corner\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Down on the Corner<\/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":[120,133,126,116,117,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","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=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}