{"id":246,"date":"2013-09-28T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:42:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:42:07","slug":"song-ography-up-on-the-roof-by-james-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Song-ography &#8211; &#8220;Up on the Roof&#8221; by James Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriters: King, Carole \/ Goffin, Gerry<br \/>Up on the roof <br \/>Carole King (attributed to James Taylor)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6132611731\/\" title=\"IMG_6752 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6752\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/6132611731_7430215d8f-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a> <br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Our favorite rooftop in the whole world is the Mayo Hotel&#8217;s rooftop bar here in Tulsa.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>When this old world starts a getting me down <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And people are just too much for me to face <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>I&#8217;ll climb way up to the top of the stairs <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And all my cares just drift right into space <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6132605539\/\" title=\"IMG_6745 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6745\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/6132605539_237c69b70c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(It is a great place for people watching. Isn&#8217;t skype fun?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>On the roof, it&#8217;s peaceful as can be <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And there the world below don&#8217;t bother me, no, no <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>So when I come home feeling tired and beat <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>I&#8217;ll go up where the air is fresh and sweet <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>I&#8217;ll get far away from the hustling crowd <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And all the rat-race noise down in the street<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6132594437\/\" title=\"IMG_6735 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6735\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/6132594437_94ece57585-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(We love the refreshments)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>On the roof, that&#8217;s the only place I know <\/i><br \/><i>Look at the city, baby <\/i><br \/><i>Where you just have to wish to make it so <\/i><br \/><i>Let&#8217;s go up on the roof <\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/6149908320\/\" title=\"Rooftop Sunset by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rooftop Sunset\" height=\"181\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/6149908320_34d6f39209-300x108.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(And the views are fantastic)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And at night the stars they put on a show for free <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And, darling, you can share it all with me <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>That&#8217;s what I said <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Keep on telling you <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7994379800\/\" title=\"IMG_3199 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3199\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/7994379800_46bc82e437-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(They have live music sometimes on weekends)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>That right smack dab in the middle of town <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>I found a paradise that&#8217;s troubleproof <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And if this old world starts a getting you down <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>There&#8217;s room enough for two <\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Up on the roof&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7994384396\/\" title=\"IMG_3188 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3188\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/7994384396_376cac8155-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Me and Sweetie, my favorite roof partner)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xgjMdjKw1Og?rel=0\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youllshootyoureyeout-kathy.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Song-ography<\/span><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriters: King, Carole \/ Goffin, GerryUp on the roof Carole King (attributed to James Taylor) (Our favorite rooftop in the whole world is the Mayo Hotel&#8217;s rooftop bar here in Tulsa.) When this old world starts a getting me down And people are just too much for me to face I&#8217;ll climb way up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mayo-hotel","category-song-ography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}