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#37- Shore Song (1983)
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My attempt at a calm breezy jazzy summer ditty. Not quite folk or jazz.
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 Smooth Jazz
Charts
Peak #92
Peak in subgenre #28
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1983
Uploaded
March 18, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.3 MB 128 kbps 2:30
Story behind the song
I must have been at a beach. I know I learned a few jazzy chords around this time. The song is really quite a stretch for me stylistically. Mp3 Club listeners for the most part felt this was one of my weakest songs. There were a few notable exceptions such as" "I really like this one. It's a 5" and "This one reminded of something that should be a Joni Mitchell song, like "Michael from Mountains". I think it could be reworked because the poetry is beautiful.""trippy... nice music and melody" Overall the song rated 2.7 out of 5.
Lyrics
The sun it is still warm in our face As we lie above The salt is in your hair As the sun Glows a deep strawberry Flick the sand off your dry suit As we beat Purple terri cloth A seagull picks the ground Finds an old wrapper Chocolate banana To a hot dance floor As evening hits the shore Then a cool cafe And maybe later on Before the light of dawn Has melted into day The days fly by into the night With the light That the stars and the breeze take And flows into the sea And you and me Laugh away till one two or three To a hot dance floor As evening hits the shore Then a cool cafe And maybe later on Before the light of dawn Has melted into day
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