{"id":3427,"date":"2015-01-25T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2015-01-25T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T08:30:12","slug":"ode-to-the-little-brown-shack-out-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

They past an ordinance in the town
\nSaid we’d have to tear it down
\nThat little brown shack out back so dear to me
\nThough the health department said
\nIt’s day was over and dead
\nIt will stand forever in my memory<\/p>\n

Don’t let ’em tear that little brown building down
\nDon’t let ’em tear that little brown building down
\nDon’t let ’em tear that little brown building down
\nThere’s not another like it in the country or the town<\/p>\n

It was not too long ago
\nThat I went tripping through the snow
\nOut to that house behind my old hound dog
\nWhere I’d sit me down to rest
\nLike a snow bird on her nest
\nAnd read the Sears and Roebuck catalog<\/p>\n

I would hum a happy tune
\nPeeping through the quarter moon
\nJust like my Pappy’s kin had done before
\nIt was in that quiet pot
\nDaily cares could be forgot
\nAnd it gave the same relief to rich and poor<\/p>\n

It was not a castle fair
\nI could build my future there
\nBuild castles to the yellow jacket’s drone
\nI could orbit round the sun
\nFight with General Washington
\nOr be a king upon his own throne<\/p>\n

It wasn’t fancy built at all
\nHad newspapers on the wall
\nIt was air conditioned in the wintertime
\nIt was just a humble hut
\nBut it’s door was never shut
\nAnd a man could get inside without a dime<\/p>\n

\n

Written by Billy Edd Wheeler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They past an ordinance in the town Said we’d have to tear it down That little brown shack out back so dear to me Though the health department said It’s day was over and dead It will stand forever in my memory Don’t let ’em tear that little brown building down Don’t let ’em tear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics","tag-country-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}