{"id":372,"date":"2026-10-27T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billquinnwriter.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2026-10-27T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:29:23","slug":"lord-a-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billquinnwriter.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Lord a Mercy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"372\" class=\"elementor elementor-372\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-194196e2 e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-default-div e-194196e2-413511e \" data-id=\"194196e2\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"194196e2\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-id=\"194196e2\">\n    <div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d69e95d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d69e95d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c56d5f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"c56d5f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"width:100%; 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Who IS that girl?<\/strong><br><br>Remember being nineteen or twenty, when every pretty girl was potentially the love of your life?<br><br>That's the fellow in this song. One Saturday night, he walks into a dancehall, spots a beautiful girl and promptly loses whatever good sense he brought with him.<br><br>Tell me you don't know a guy like this. Maybe yourself?<br><br>Before the evening is over, he's ready to change his ways, settle down and marry her. There's just one small problem. He can't remember her name.<br><br><em>Lord a Mercy!<\/em> is a lighthearted look back at those wonderful years when the music was loud, the girls were pretty and falling in love could happen three times in a single Saturday night.<br><br>And why <em>Lord a Mercy!<\/em>?<br><br>Because at that age, that's about the only thing we had going for us.<br><br><\/p>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2088061 e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-default-div e-2088061-7d3f591 \" data-id=\"2088061\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"2088061\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-id=\"2088061\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25b6 Click the cover to play Other Audio Options: Spotify YouTube Music Lord A&#8217; Mercy Bill Quinn Lord a Mercy! Who IS that girl? Remember being nineteen or twenty, when every pretty girl was potentially the love of your life? 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