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#42- The Old Red Barn (1983)
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This lonesome love song is the earliest song of mine to be officially released. Best version is on 1994's Other Lives by Lessick & Lincoln. (Other Lives is available on i-tunes and cdbaby.com)
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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)
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Charts
Peak #179
Peak in subgenre #41
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1983
Uploaded
April 01, 2007
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MP3 2.9 MB 128 kbps 3:12
Story behind the song
I always loved the early Richard Thompson song Farewell, Farewell off the great Fairport Convention album Liege & Leaf. When writing this song I tried to go for that feel. It really ended up sounding nothing like that song. Instead it kind of has a lullaby quality. In fact my wife would sing it when she put my son to sleep when he was a baby. The Lessick and Lincoln version sounds a bit like Simon and Garfunkel. It can be found on cdbaby.com as well as i-tunes. This version has a bit sadder ending as there is an alternate lyric. Mp3 listeners thus far have given this a 4.0 out of 5. Some comments include: "Of course 'Old Red Barn' I know from the landmark Lessick and Lincoln debut album. Sounds great. Truly a memorable tune..." "Liked the guitar lead" "Melody didn't do it for me, but I liked the lyrics" "Beautiful melody"
Lyrics
I dreamed of you just the other day Then I caught the dream before it slowly slipped away You were out walking that long and dusty road And you saw me standing beside the old red barn I knew you for a stretch of time You never knew I nearly lost my mind Those days were young But I never said I loved you Mockingbird cry a song for my tears Echoe a feeling swallowed never born I was out walking that long and dusty road I didn't see you standing beside the Old Red Barn I loved you from the very start You never knew I really lost my heart Those days are gone And I want to say I love you When shadows fall and the moon is very bright Hoot owl calls our names so deep into the night There'll be no lonely people along the dusty road And no one will be standing beside the old red barn Yes no one will be standing beside the old red barn
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