{"id":593,"date":"2011-12-31T08:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=593"},"modified":"2011-12-31T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:36:37","slug":"take-me-out-to-lakeside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Take Me Out to Lakeside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4123068287\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2647\/4123068287_8abe70f8a7.jpg\" title=\"Lakeside Park Joplin Missouri\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Scott_%28musician%29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1b\/James_scott_new_edited.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td><div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Take_Me_Out_To_Lakeside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/14\/Take_Me_Out_To_Lakeside.jpg\/468px-Take_Me_Out_To_Lakeside.jpg\" title=\"Lakeside\" width=\"200\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>African American ragtime musician James Scott, who spent his formative years in Carthage, Missouri, entertained crowds at Lakeside Park, just outside Joplin. In 1914, Scott wrote music for a song he called, \u201cTake Me Out to Lakeside.\u201d The words are by Ida Miller.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take Me Out to Lakeside<\/strong> (1914)<\/p>\n<p>First verse:<\/p>\n<p>Take me to \u201cLake-Side\u201d that beautiful place,<br \/>\nWhere your life seems complete,<br \/>\nOrchestras playing and everyone swaying gives you such a treat,<br \/>\nDancing and glancing with smiles so entrancing is all you can see<br \/>\nThe Waltz hesitation is all the sensation,<br \/>\nOh come and dance with me.<\/p>\n<p>Refrain:<\/p>\n<p>Take me out to Lakeside Sunday afternoon,<br \/>\nWhere the band is playing, Flowers all in bloom,<br \/>\nBoys and girls together happy as a lark,<br \/>\nTake me out to \u201cLake-Side\u201d<br \/>\nBeautiful Lake-side Park, park.<\/p>\n<p>Second verse:<\/p>\n<p>When twilight draws near and the whole world seems drear,<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ve no place to go,<br \/>\nYou may sit guessing but no thought expressing The pleasures you love so,<br \/>\nYou think of your only while you feel so lonely it all<br \/>\nSeems a dream<br \/>\nSo while you are pining there comes a reminding,<br \/>\nA glorious thought it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Refrain:<\/p>\n<p>Take me out to Lakeside Sunday afternoon,<br \/>\nWhere the band is playing, Flowers all in bloom,<br \/>\nBoys and girls together happy as a lark,<br \/>\nTake me out to \u201cLake-Side\u201d<br \/>\nBeautiful Lake-side Park, park.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to a sample of the song, visit this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/#\/music\/song\/james+scott\/take+me+out+to+lakeside\">link at Pandora Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African American ragtime musician James Scott, who spent his formative years in Carthage, Missouri, entertained crowds at Lakeside Park, just outside Joplin. In 1914, Scott wrote music for a song he called, \u201cTake Me Out to Lakeside.\u201d The words are by Ida Miller. Take Me Out to Lakeside (1914) First verse: Take me to \u201cLake-Side\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,395,263,1562],"tags":[319,328,439,2331,2330,31,692,979,2338,2333,2334,2332,2337,2336,2335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}