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#31- Dark Brown Eyes (1982)
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An ethereal song with a violin and slow psychedelic/jazzy feel
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
Genre
Jazz Acid Jazz
Charts
Peak #101
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1982
Uploaded
February 24, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.8 MB 128 kbps 3:00
Story behind the song
I played Dark Brown Eyes one or two times for friends in the early 80's but it just became too painful to play, and I don't mean the lyrics---it was those hurting chords that really challenged my fingers. Fortunately, I bought an electric gutar that is much easier in terms of finger action, though this is one of the few times I recorded my vocals and guitar playing seperately. (As I have stated before, most of these recordings are live and first take offerings, with some overdubs added). And just what are those difficult chords? Guitar players take note that not all my songs are G/C/D: Gsus4/Asus4/Csus4 Aus4/Csus4 Fmaj7minus3rd/Dmaj7thminus3rd Fmaj7/Dmaj7 I forgot what you call a chord that has a 3rd removed--does it even have a name? I could not find the name anywhere. Music majors help me out here. I may begin writing the chords for all the tunes at the end of the lyrics so people can pick up any of these songs easier---and I can remember how to play them again. And by the way, the lyrics are inspired by the same person in A Winters Day. This song is a lot more ethereal though than that one. Mp3 listeners so far have rated this a 3.0 out of 5.0....Some of their comments have included: "Nice song, musically" "a big thumbs up.... Just abit haunting enough to get under your skin with the inimitable Rob violin." "haunting melody very nice but wish the words were different."
Lyrics
Dark Brown Eyes near the teardrop From the cries that you never care Tell no lies I see the embers Of the pain you'll never share Half past November Will you say what you remember? You are so shy---eyes But you're sly--eyes Oh so Dark brown eyes darting behind you Waiting to strike if I dare smile Oh tell me why so I can find you Wailing for nothing say that's your style Half past November Will you say what you remember? You are so shy--eyes But you're sly-- eyes Oh so sly Dark Brown eyes
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