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Jimmy O' Whiskey
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My original traditional sounding Irish song. Meant for a better voice than I. If you want to cover it, I will promote it and post a link to your version. Written during FAWM 2016.
irish drinking sad traditional sounding
Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Charts
#2,087 today Peak #57
#26 in subgenre Peak #3
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2016
Uploaded
September 30, 2017
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MP3
MP3 2.3 MB 128 kbps 2:33
Story behind the song
Wanted to write a traditional sounding Irish song. So I did. Like a good number of my songs, this is meant for a singer with a very different voice. If anyone would like to cover it, I will post your version and promote it.
Lyrics
#484- Jimmy 0’ Whiskey ©2016 by Rob Lincoln Capo 1 G Around Paterson town Em Never wore a frown G D Came a rambling and a gambling Jimmy O G A sweetheart by his side Em Told them to come inside G D G A smiling and lying Jimmy O C Says he’s a lucky man G And he’s glad to lend a hand C G D To everyone and anyone he knows C But he’s got sing a song G Wants all to sing along C G D He clears his throat and this is how it goes Chorus G D Em C Jimmy O’Whiskey Jimmy O’ Whiskey G D G D That’s the name they gave to good old me Jimmy O’Whiskey 2x G D G I’m so glad I am free Now he’s stumbling out the door Says he cannot drink no more A dizzy in a tizzy Jimmy O A bottle in his hand A solitary man Down the streets are spinning Jimmy O Says he feels no pain As he stumbles in the rain Passes everyone he thought he used to know But he’s got sing a song Wants all to sing along He clears his throat and this is how it goes Chorus 2x Jimmy O’Whiskey 2x That’s the name they gave to poor old me Jimmy O’Whiskey 2x Someday I will be free
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