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#60-From A Firefly (1984)
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Children's song from the perspective of a firefly
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 #568
Peak in subgenre #39
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1984
Uploaded
June 04, 2007
Track Files
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MP3 2.9 MB 128 kbps 3:08
Story behind the song
This was my second attempt at a children's song and my first attempt at a song written from the perspective of an insect. (In this case a firefly). Mp3 listeners gave it an average rating of 3.9 (out of 5). Comments included: "I really liked this song a lot. It's unique, completely original, catchy, and captures some of the magic of childhood. Beautiful."
Lyrics
I saw young Arnold catching fireflies And through the jar I could see his big eyes they say human children rip our bodies in two So somehow I knew what I had to do Escape to green fields where the small beasties lay And William the field mouse gnarls at his prey Over the ant hills, under green blades Back to the place where my young larvae lay Home where the breeze moves softly Home where the earthworms play Home where the sparrows fly by Home on the Earth good Earth all the Earth is our home I can see the sweet buttercup just as it sprouts I can take you to where the dew water spouts Across from the crickets' nightly hangover spot We can suck on dandelion juice piping hot And escape to green fields where the small beasties lay And William the field mouse gnarls at his prey Over the ant hills, under green blades Back to the place where my young larvae lay Home where the breeze moves softly Home where the earthworms play Home where the sparrows fly by Home on the Earth good Earth all the Earth is our home We can hunt the wild berries and tickle a young shrub We can visit Joe Flea who lives on a cub We'll fly above ground but don't feel fright For we'll light up the night with our luminous light And escape to green fields where the small beasties lay And William the field mouse gnarls at his prey Over the ant hills, under green blades Back to the place where my young larvae lay Home where the breeze moves softly Home where the earthworms play Home where the sparrows fly by Home on the Earth good Earth all the Earth is our home all the Earth is our home all the Earth is our home
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