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#45- The End of A Day (1983)
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An observational song about Chestnut Street in Philadelphia around 5:30 PM in the Spring of 1983
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 #679
Peak in subgenre #121
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1983
Uploaded
April 15, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.9 MB 128 kbps 4:15
Story behind the song
In the Spring of 1983 I would often ride the Route 38 bus home after working at the after school Y on Broad & Pine. The lyrics to the verse of this song are mostly direct observations of what I saw along Chestnut Street coming home every night. Mp3 listeners rated this a 3.0 out of 5.... Some comments were: "OK-- Maybe early Jackson Browne or Steve Forbert. Solemn and distant" "this song bored me and it seemed to go on forever :( Unfortunately everything in this song is more prevalent today than in 1983" "I didn’t really care for that much. The music is nice but lyrically it felt shallow""Don't like this song as much as your other songs from this time period. I like the chord progression. Find myself wanting to impose a different melody on it"
Lyrics
I see the ventman as he tries to settle down He looks into my eyes though my head is turned around I watch the papers and the people flying by My stomach's growling so my head ain't asking why It's the end of a day another working day It's the end of a day another working day The cars are full of people who are moving their machines Some little boys are dancing in a crowd that pays to see 'em A saxophone is wailing for a nickle or a dime Old lady looks so scared she's thinking about some crime It's the end of a day another working day It's the end of a day another working day Don't ask me about the world after I get home Don't want to worry; don't want to pick on no bone Just turn on the TV change the channels a few times Put my feet up on the coffeetable and sigh It's the end of a day another working day It's the end of a day another working day I see the ventman as he tries to settle down He looks into my eyes though my head is turned around I watch the the people and the papers flying by His stomach's growling but my head ain't asking why
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