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#40- Can You Tell me? (1983)
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Traditional country-pop a la Patsy Cline, with a touch of Hank Sr.-stripped down to guitar and vocal
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 #340
Peak in subgenre #58
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1983
Uploaded
March 25, 2007
Track Files
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MP3 2.8 MB 128 kbps 3:01
Story behind the song
I was listening to a lot of Patsy Cline around the time I wrote this one. My first attempt at this type of country song. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.0 out of 5...Comments included: "Too lovesick or I'm too old," "I like this one" "I'm not crazy about country"
Lyrics
Can you tell me where I went wrong? You said you loved me Did you change your mind? Or do your words fall from your mouth? Through the clouds to a bluebird flying south? Can You tell me when I went wrong? Loved me in the summer Till the September morn Was it yesterday? Was it Tomorrow? Was it today? Or before I was born? Can you tell me how I went wrong? You said you loved me Did you change your mind? Was it something I didn't do? Was it something I had done? Was it something I had lost? Or was it something I had won?
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