{"id":1253,"date":"2019-06-30T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1253"},"modified":"2021-07-24T07:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T11:41:23","slug":"the-brandy-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1253","title":{"rendered":"The Brandy Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordonbok.com\/\">Gordon Bok<\/a> tells me that he got the inspiration from this song from a small otter which used to hang around Sherman&#8217;s Point, Camden, Maine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uw_ZNAtET3g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I go down to the Brandy tree<br \/>\nTake my nose and my tail with me<br \/>\nAll for the world and the wind to see<br \/>\nAnd never come back no more<\/p>\n<p>Down the meadowmarsh, deep and wide<br \/>\nTumble the tangle by my side<br \/>\nAll for the westing wind to run<br \/>\nAnd slide in the summer rain<\/p>\n<p>Sun come follow my happy way<br \/>\nWind come walk beside me<br \/>\nMoon on the mountain, go with me<br \/>\nA wonderous way I know<\/p>\n<p>I go down to the windy sea<br \/>\nThe little gray seal will play with me<br \/>\nSlide on the rock and dive in the bay<br \/>\nAnd sleep on the ledge at night<\/p>\n<p>But the seal don&#8217;t try to tell me how<br \/>\nTo fish in the windy blue<br \/>\nSeal been fishin&#8217; for a thousand years<br \/>\nAnd he knows that I have, too<\/p>\n<p>When the frog goes down to the mud to sleep<br \/>\nAnd the lamprey hides in the boulders deep<br \/>\nI take my nose and my tail and go<br \/>\nA hundred thousand hills<\/p>\n<p>Sun come follow my happy way<br \/>\nWind come walk beside me<br \/>\nMoon on the mountain, go with me<br \/>\nA wonderous way I know<\/p>\n<p>Someday down by the Brandy tree<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll hear the shepherd call for me<br \/>\nCall me to leave my happy ways<br \/>\nAnd the shining world I know<\/p>\n<p>Sun on the hill, come go with me<br \/>\nMy days have all been free<br \/>\nThe pipes come laughin&#8217; down the wind<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s the way I go<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the way for me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend Gordon Bok tells me that he got the inspiration from this song from a small otter which used to hang around Sherman&#8217;s Point, Camden, Maine. I go down to the Brandy tree Take my nose and my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88892,"featured_media":0,"parent":1219,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1253\/revisions\/1372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}