{"id":3913,"date":"2018-07-13T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/HatchetOnline\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:47:17","slug":"fall-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/fall-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall River"},"content":{"rendered":"

First published in February\/March, 2007, Volume 4, Issue 1, The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(as sung to the tune of \u2018Green Acres\u2019)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By Sherry Chapman<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

(Andrew):\u00a0 <\/span>Fall River is the place to be<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Town living is the life for me<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Banks spreading out on South Main Street<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Keep your restaurants, just give me my mutton meat.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

(Lizzie): The Hill is where I\u2019d rather stay<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I hate living here all day.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I just adore a dress that\u2019s new<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Father, my love, I may have to butcher you.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A: Green Backs!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

L: An axe!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0 <\/span>No horse!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

L: John Morse!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A: You are my own.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

L:\u00a0 <\/span>Goodbye, you old crone!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Both: Fall River we\u2019ll stay here!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lizzie Borden\/Fall River poem by Borden humorist Sherry Chapman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}