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#8-Goin' To California (1979)
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Music is in the style of Gene Clark. Lyrics are a true story.
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 #158
Peak in subgenre #31
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1979
Uploaded
December 03, 2006
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MP3 4.0 MB 128 kbps 4:23
Story behind the song
Musically this is a bit Byrdish. I was too embarrassed to share this song with the world in 1979 since it was about a friend of mine I had a crush on. Haven't seen her in 15 years so I guess it is ok. The crush has worn off, but I hope she is doing well. I took the photo a few months after the song was written as she was on a beach with friends in California. Mp3 club listeners' gave this an average rating of 3.0... Some listener comments were: "I didn't like this song that much the first time but it really grew on me the second time. It's a keeper," "Neat retro 60's feeling," "I'm liking the voice and vocal styling," "Hard to piece together the lyrics," "flop!"
Lyrics
She told me yesterday She's goin' to California I saw it in her dreams She's got to find a lover Cause she don't like Philly summers She don't like Philly winters She's got to leave her family And I'm bound to be her brother She looks at me today As if I'm her mother's china Such a fragile thing Our friendship's on the line now Cause she don't like Philly summers She don't like Philly winters She's got to leave her family And I'm bound to be her brother There's nothing more to say No label what to feel Will I see her again? Are all kinds of love real? Chorus (coda) I'd love to be her brother
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