{"id":1437,"date":"2016-07-23T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/?page_id=1437"},"modified":"2016-07-23T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T18:43:31","slug":"weeds-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/?page_id=1437","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Weeds&#8221; &#8211; Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weeds<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Words and Music by J. Douglas Wright &amp; Brandon Swafford<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2015 Mama\u2019s Hippopotamus Music (ASCAP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The property owner<br \/>\nStood on his perfect lawn<br \/>\nHe said \u201cIt\u2019s come to my attention that<br \/>\nThere\u2019s been an infestation<br \/>\nSo get the poison out<br \/>\nAnd get the trimmers running<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve got to rid our precious land<br \/>\nOf this invasion that is coming\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve decided they are weeds (nah nah)<br \/>\nWeeds (nah nah)<br \/>\nWeeds (nah nah)<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve decided they are weeds (nah nah)<br \/>\nWeeds (nah nah)<br \/>\nWeeds (nah nah)<\/p>\n<p>The neighbors gathered round<br \/>\nAnd you could hear the sound<br \/>\nOf their frustration as they spoke of ways<br \/>\nTo stop the infiltration<br \/>\nThey said \u201cwe must unite<br \/>\nAnd put our plan in motion<br \/>\nIf we don\u2019t they will take over<br \/>\nAnd leave nothing but erosion\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>Bridge<br \/>\nAnd by the riverbank the kids were playing<br \/>\nAnd while they picked the weeds I heard them saying<br \/>\n\u201cLook at all the pretty flowers that we found today<br \/>\nAren\u2019t they beautiful? Aren\u2019t they beautiful?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chorus (Repeat twice)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeds Words and Music by J. Douglas Wright &amp; Brandon Swafford Copyright 2015 Mama\u2019s Hippopotamus Music (ASCAP) The property owner Stood on his perfect lawn He said \u201cIt\u2019s come to my attention that There\u2019s been an infestation So get the poison out And get the trimmers running We\u2019ve got to rid our precious land Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdouglaswright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}