{"id":5255,"date":"2012-01-31T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T04:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=5255"},"modified":"2012-02-04T06:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T14:45:47","slug":"lyrics-back-when-we-were-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=5255","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics: Back When We Were Beautiful [Berg Matraca-&#8220;Good &#8216;Ol Girls&#8221;]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5246\" title=\"userpic=sheriffjohn\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/userpicsheriffjohn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"77\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>OK, Folks, you know the drill. Allright everyone, let&#8217;s gather in front of our large, 13&#8243;, Black and White TV set, and watch as a tall, lanky man in a khaki uniform strides out, introduces himself as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvparty.com\/lostlasheriff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sheriff John<\/a>, pulls out his accordion, and sings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\u2230<\/p>\n<p>I guess you had to be there, she said, you had to be<br \/>\nShe handed me a yellowed photograph<br \/>\nAnd then said, See<br \/>\nThis was my greatest love, my one and only love<br \/>\nAnd this is me<br \/>\nBack when we were beautiful, see<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel very different, she said, I know it&#8217;s strange<br \/>\nI guess I&#8217;ve gotten used to these little aches and pains<br \/>\nBut I still love to dance, you know we used to dance<br \/>\nThe night away<br \/>\nBack when we were beautiful, beautiful, yes<\/p>\n<p>I hate it when they say<br \/>\nI&#8217;m aging gracefully<br \/>\nI fight it every day<br \/>\nI guess they never see<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t like this at all<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s happening to me<br \/>\nTo me<\/p>\n<p>But I really love my grandkids, she said, they&#8217;re sweet to hold<br \/>\nThey would have loved their grandpa<br \/>\nThose awful jokes he told<br \/>\nYou know sometimes for a laugh, the two of us would act<br \/>\nLike we were old<br \/>\nBack when we were beautiful, beautiful, yes<\/p>\n<p>But I guess you had to be there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, Folks, you know the drill. Allright everyone, let&#8217;s gather in front of our large, 13&#8243;, Black and White TV set, and watch as a tall, lanky man in a khaki uniform strides out, introduces himself as Sheriff John, pulls out his accordion, and sings: \u2230 I guess you had to be there, she said, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=5255\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5255\/revisions\/5410"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}