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#54- Shady River (1984)
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One of the only spiritual songs I've written. It is probably my best known song.
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 #352
Peak in subgenre #56
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1984
Uploaded
May 12, 2007
Track Files
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MP3 4.0 MB 128 kbps 4:24
Story behind the song
Written in about 10 minutes, like some of the best songs it "came" to me, I was merely receiving it. Shady River has appeared on the PASA compilation CD, Declaration! That version features a wonderful lead vocal by Amy Torchia, formerly of Amy and Jennie. (The Declaration! CD is available at amazon.com and many other Internet outlets.) The song was later covered by the obscure central Pennsylvania group the Blue Diamonds, who heard the recording of it on Declaration! and tracked me down for permission to put it on their 1999 release. Thus far those are the only officially released recordings of Shady River. Mp3 Club listeners have rated this at 4.8 out of 5.0.... Comments have included: "Wish I wrote this one" "This one is a real heart tugger, Rob -- I can sure see why folks like it!""Of course a 5. Still stands up" "Great chorus ....the less you know you know ....love that line.....it's the things you don't know that you don't know that get you every time.....and if you knew what you don't know you'd be GOD"
Lyrics
Just yesterday as we ran through the open fields under the moon Down through the woods to the place where we heard that old familiar tune Where the shady river continues to flow And the more you feel her The less you know you know Do you still remember hearing her sound A thousand years before you were born? Just yesterday we were young and we smelled a new exciting scent The flowers bloomed from where we came and followed wherever we went Where the shady river continues to flow And the more you feel her The less you know you know Do you still remember hearing her sound A thousand years before you were born? Just yesterday long long ago I don't remember how I touched your hand and we ran where only our minds wander now Where the shady river continues to flow And the more you feel her The less you know you know Do you still remember hearing her sound A thousand years before you were born?
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