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#4- Shopping Bag Lady (1977)
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My first song about a social issue-Homelessness
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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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
Peak #277
Peak in subgenre #41
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1977
Uploaded
November 18, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.6 MB 128 kbps 2:50
Story behind the song
This was a throw away song never played for anyone that I resurrected with a calypso like beat. It suffers from an 18 year old's indignation at the cruel cruel world. Mp3 Club listeners' average rating was 3.0 out of 5.0 Some listener comments on this song were: "sounds like Phil Collins plagarized a bit and gave you no credit. Good musical and lyrical compositon," "This one is good in the context of an eighteen year old. I guess I like the music and melody the most. I like the feel and the rhythm. The lyrics are to my mind a little bit protest-generic. They have rhetoric-style adjectives like corporate and madness." "its genre is old and its message is blatant - I listen and instantly feel what you feel when you think about a homeless person, but I don't like feeling that way and there's not enough of a hook in the song to make me really not care about how bad I feel" "Sounds like a promising young songwriter in the making" "It might work as a rap song"
Lyrics
As I walk the streets of Madness And the corporate merchants sell their wares I am struck with a deep felt sadness For the shopping bag lady from nowhere For the shopping bag lady from nowhere I know you have seen her With her thrift shop dress tattered and worn Rosie with one high heel shoe is screaming And what she says she says with scorn And what she says she says with scorn It does not matter the words that she may say All that metters is where she is today Perhaps she was a main line countess Born in rich society Lost beneath the money counted Under a dying Christmas tree Under a dying Christmas tree It does not matter the words that she may say All that matters is whare she is today And as I walk the streets of madness Where you and I live cozily I'm struck with an even deeper sadness For all of us who let it be For all of us who let it be
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