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#49-Gold Rush Hill (1984)
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Literally about a pioneer going west for gold, but it's actually an allegory-can you guess it's allegorical meaning? Takes place in 1849/1984.
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 #370
Peak in subgenre #53
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1984
Uploaded
April 29, 2007
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MP3 4.1 MB 128 kbps 4:30
Story behind the song
I didn't know this was my 49th song when I wrote it. Coincidentally it takes place in 1849 but deals on an allegorical level with what was happening in 1984. Works as a simple folk song as well. Mp3 listeners have so far rated this 4.0 out of 5. Comments have included: "This is a beautiful song. This was your best performance of all the songs so far. This one gets a 5!" "Grateful Dead influences" "Im a sucker for a ballad"
Lyrics
It was back in '49 news came my way There were streets that were paved in gold better leave here today So I closed up my blacksmith's shop sold my horse Sam Bought a one way ticket to cross this big old land And by wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill By wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill We crossed the Appalachians through the fields of Ohio We travelled through Missouri we crossed her waters slow Through the dead of winter in our boots we made our way Over the Sierras till we saw that golden bay And by wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill By wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill Oh the town it was teeming with miners everywhere So I bought me a mule and a pick ax to see how I would fare I followed all the others down the road way yonder right Thought I'd get real lucky so I picked all day and night But by wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill By wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill Now the gold it never trickled down the stream to most of us A very few they struck it rich to most it was a bust So I worked like hell to save to get back east after about 4 years Things don't always pan out The way you'd expect to hear But by wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill By wagon train we came to Gold Rush Hill To Gold Rush Hill
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