{"id":148,"date":"2007-01-17T06:09:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/nevada-poor\/"},"modified":"2007-01-17T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:10:05","slug":"nevada-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/nevada-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written around 1976<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nHere they come up from the river,<br \/>\nEmpty pockets and sad young men;<br \/>\nDusty and dirty and broken down,<br \/>\nNo gold in that damned old river again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I wait for the men after sundown,<br \/>\nIn the bar where they all drink and eat;<br \/>\nThey come up my stairs for a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love,<br \/>\nOn that dusty mining camp street.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<\/p>\n<p>And who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna be the one tonight<br \/>\nThat I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna hold tight behind the door;<br \/>\nAnd if your poker game ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been goin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 right<br \/>\nPut an IOU in the drawer,<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been through this before,<br \/>\nNevada poor.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember how long I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been here,<br \/>\nSince I first left New Orleans;<br \/>\nI was gonna be a singer and a showgirl<br \/>\nWith my suitcase full of dresses and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could fall in love with one,<br \/>\nBut with these miners, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hit and miss;<br \/>\nI should go to see my sister in Reno,<br \/>\nBut I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never let her see me like this.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written around 1976 Here they come up from the river, Empty pockets and sad young men; Dusty and dirty and broken down, No gold in that damned old river again.<\/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-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}