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#47-We Can Sing (The World Is In Our hands)-1983
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The most idealistic song I ever wrote. Originally an anti-nuclear power environmental anthem, now updated for global warming
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)
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Peak in subgenre #73
Author
Rob Lincoln
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1983
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April 22, 2007
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MP3 4.6 MB 128 kbps 5:02
Story behind the song
We Can Sing is perhaps the most idealistic song I ever wrote. It's about taking action on the environment. Never played it to anyone and it was so outdated with the "no nukes" line I just changed it to an "let's end global warming" line and now it seems a bit more relevent. I try more harmony on this one. Mp3 Club listens thus far have rated this a 3.4 out of 5.... Listener comments have included: " 'World is in our hands' has really nice harmony. Somehow I'm thinking it needs a different vocal sound maybe Indigo Girls. Words on on target."
Lyrics
We can sing over the warm green fields We can sing through the cities of our land We can sing down by the old dirt road We can sing the world is in our hands I want to breathe the clean air I want to drink cool crystal waters It's time to lift up our voices For our sons and daughters We must sing to save our warm green fields We must sing to save our golden land We must sing over our video nation We must sing the world is in our hands I want to breathe the clean air I want to drink cool crystal waters It's time to lift up our voices For our sons and daughters The children cry but we can sing for food to feed them The leaders lie but we can drown their voices too It's you and I, don't let the cynics deceive you We can sing the world is in our hands I want to breathe the clean air I want to drink cool crystal waters It's time to lift up our voices For our sons and daughters Some say we're naive, but so were all the dreamers You've got to believe before you can do What was meant to be is what we reach to change now We can bring the world into our hands Oh we can bring if we can sing Oh we can sing and we can bring I want to breathe the clean air I want to drink cool crystal waters It's time to stop global warming For our sons and daughters
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