{"id":326,"date":"2012-09-23T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lillilewis.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=326"},"modified":"2012-09-23T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:51:51","slug":"ballad-of-the-hidden-village-lay-your-burden-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/lyrics\/ballad-of-the-hidden-village-lay-your-burden-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of the Hidden Village (Lay Your Burden Down)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lay your burden down boys,<br \/>\nLay your burden down<br \/>\nOf your kind they will say<br \/>\nHow you set your will ablaze<br \/>\nBut for now lay your burden down boys<br \/>\nLay your burden down<\/p>\n<p>We came from the port of New Orleans<br \/>\nFrom the maiden who ne\u2019er shall wake<br \/>\nIn her bed we take rest<br \/>\nFrom the woes we possess<br \/>\nBy the shores of her Ponchartrain Lake, boys<\/p>\n<p>We crossed the Great Mississippi<br \/>\nThe roar of our nation\u2019s birth<br \/>\nOn her mighty waves<br \/>\nFor the triumph of the trade<br \/>\nThey belied the measure of our worth, boys<\/p>\n<p>We passed by the graves of our mothers<br \/>\nThrough the land where they toiled and they tilled<br \/>\nAre we ever to know<br \/>\nHow their seeds were made to grow<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a silence that haunts us still, boys<\/p>\n<p>When we reached Angelina County,<br \/>\nA Hidden Village we did find<br \/>\nA fraternity<br \/>\nNay, the \u201cOrder of the Qui!\u201d<br \/>\nDeep in those Texas Pines, boys<\/p>\n<p>We took comfort in your union<br \/>\nThe rage in your will of fire<br \/>\nYou reached out a hand<br \/>\nYes we joined the royal band<br \/>\nWith our will may we ever inspire, boys<\/p>\n<p>So, lay your burden down boys,<br \/>\nLay your burden down<br \/>\nOf your kind they will say<br \/>\nHow you set your will ablaze<br \/>\nBut for now lay your burden down boys<br \/>\nLay your burden down<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lay your burden down boys, Lay your burden down Of your kind they will say How you set your will ablaze But for now lay your burden down boys Lay your burden down We came from the port of New Orleans From the maiden who ne\u2019er shall wake In her bed we take rest From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}