{"id":140,"date":"2007-01-15T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/country-man-won%e2%80%99t-you-stay-with-me-tonight\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:27:16","slug":"country-man-won%e2%80%99t-you-stay-with-me-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/country-man-won%e2%80%99t-you-stay-with-me-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Man, Won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t You Stay with Me Tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Co-written in 1973 with Mary Ann Simmons in Chicago. Loosely based on a man I met at the $50 betting window at the 1973 Kentucky Derby.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nI can tell you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re from Tennessee,<br \/>\nI can see the Smoky Mountains in Your eyes;<br \/>\nYou talk kind funny to this city girl, I know;<br \/>\nBut you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gentle like a good old hound<br \/>\nAnd I think I want to keep you around,<br \/>\nCountry man, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you stay with me tonight?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When you pick on your banjo like that,<br \/>\nI can see that everything\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna be fine;<br \/>\nMother l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pearl ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only thing that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna get laid;<br \/>\nSo keep on drinkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that California wine,<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna have a goddamned good time,<br \/>\nCountry man, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you stay with me tonight?<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nCity boys livin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 just for their pay,<br \/>\nJust about time I seen the light of day;<br \/>\nTennessee Valley, give me some authority!<\/p>\n<p>Daddy said to get an education,<br \/>\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only thing that a man can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t steal;<br \/>\nBut, darlin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, you can go ahead and rob me blind;<br \/>\nJust wrap yourself around me like a sweet \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctato vine,<br \/>\nThat kinda schoolin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, honey, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind,<br \/>\nCountry man, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you stay with me tonight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-written in 1973 with Mary Ann Simmons in Chicago. Loosely based on a man I met at the $50 betting window at the 1973 Kentucky Derby. I can tell you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re from Tennessee, I can see the Smoky Mountains in Your eyes; You talk kind funny to this city girl, I know; But you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gentle like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}