{"id":160,"date":"2007-01-24T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/two-dollar-window\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T17:20:26","slug":"two-dollar-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/two-dollar-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-dollar Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Based on a conversation I had with a one-armed man in line at the $2 window at the 1974 Kentucky Derby<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I met you at the two-dollar window,<br \/>\nAt the races on a day in July;<br \/>\nAnd I could tell you were a regular winner,<br \/>\nBy the crazy look you had in your eye.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We watched the horses from the railing,<br \/>\nHoldin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hands and drinkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 warm beer;<br \/>\nAnd you said you had horses in Tennessee,<br \/>\nAnd we should meet at the Derby next year.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<\/p>\n<p><em>Just give me some southern comfort,<br \/>\nGive me just a little taste;<br \/>\nJust give me some southern comfort,<br \/>\nDon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let a drop go to waste.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We both bet on a horse named Diablo,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCase you dreamed about the devil last night;<br \/>\nAnd we both lost ten dollars at the wire,<br \/>\nBut a Tennessee angel treated me right.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>The day you left we sat in your pickup,<br \/>\nLosin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tickets all over the floor;<br \/>\nI was finishing out of the money,<br \/>\nJust my own faded smile to show.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a conversation I had with a one-armed man in line at the $2 window at the 1974 Kentucky Derby I met you at the two-dollar window, At the races on a day in July; And I could tell you were a regular winner, By the crazy look you had in your eye.<\/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-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}