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#58- A Mother's Songs (1984)-archive tape
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This is a sentimental song about mother/son relationship. The recording was back when I had a prettier voice.
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 #180
Peak in subgenre #26
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1984
Uploaded
May 27, 2007
Track Files
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 3:20
Story behind the song
Fortunately of the 200 or so songs I have on archive recordings from the 1980's this was one of my better performances, so this recording is from a 1985 casette tape. (All these tapes have been transfered to CD, but many are shakier performances than what I am putting up hear--though my voice in 1985 is prettier.) Mp3 listeners have rated this 4.6 (out of 5)....Comments include: "This is a really good one" "Nice line-"Oh love is clear it's hate that is blind..."
Lyrics
There is a woman who lives down the road So far away from here And she used to sing me songs when I was very young To keep me from my fears Songs of pearls and shells and of silver bells Snow white horses and the bluebird And as strange as it seems as glistening meadows gleam I had forgotten them till now For there was a time when the anger denied What we were meant to feel Oh love is clear it's hate that is blind But there were no songs to protect me Songs of pearls and shells and of silver bells Snow white horses and the bluebird And as strange as it seems as glistening meadows gleam I had forgotten them till now But there still is time to reach back in your mind To that place of lost memories And bring back a time when your world was young And you could still hear her sing Songs of pearls and shells and of silver bells Snow white horses and the bluebird And as strange as it seems as glistening meadows gleam I had forgotten them till now And as strange as it seems as glistening meadows gleam I had forgotten them till now
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