{"id":26907,"date":"2025-09-04T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=26907"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:37:30","slug":"long-ago-and-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/long-ago-and-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Ago and Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Song: Long ago(and far away)\r\nArtist: James Taylor\r\nComposer: James Taylor\r\nAlbum: Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon\r\n \r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tklVv0eVybY\">James Taylor live performance at this link<\/a>\r\n\r\n=====================================================\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[Am] Long a - go a [D] young man sits,\r\nAnd [G] plays his waiting [C] game,\r\nBut [Bm] things are not the [Em] same, it seems,\r\nAs [Am] in such tender [D7] dreams,\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[Am] Slowly passing [D] sailing ships,\r\nAnd [G] Sunday after - [C] noon,\r\nLike [Bm] people on the [Em] moon, I see,\r\nAre [Am] things not meant to [D7] be?<\/span>\r\n \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - [G] Where do those [Am] rainbows end?\r\n[G]      Why is this [Am] song <span style=\"color: #808080;\">(I sing)<\/span> so sad?\r\n[G]      Dreaming the [Am] dreams I've dreamed, \r\n[G]   ...loving the [Am] love I [G] love and...<\/span>\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[Am] Love is just a [D] word I've heard,\r\nWhen [G] things are being [C] said,\r\n[Bm] Stories my poor [Em] head has told me...\r\n[Am] Cannot stand the [D7] cold,\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And [Am] in bet - ween what [D] might have been,\r\nAnd [G] what has come to [C] pass,\r\nA [Bm] misbe - gotten guess, a-[Em]-las,\r\nAnd [Am] bits of broken [D7] glass<\/span>\r\n \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n... love to [G] love... to love, ...[Am] to love,\r\n      (To [G] love... to love, ... [G] to love!)\r\n*****************************************************\r\n <\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song: Long ago(and far away) Artist: James Taylor Composer: James Taylor Album: Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon James Taylor live performance at this link ===================================================== [Verse 1] [Am] Long a &#8211; go a [D] young man sits, And [G] plays his waiting [C] game, But [Bm] things are not &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/long-ago-and-far-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Ago and Far Away<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,147,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-james-taylor","category-live-baritone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31709,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions\/31709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}