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#70- Albert Einstein On Route 95 South (1985)
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Bizarre first foray into my future surrealistic phase.
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 #387
Peak in subgenre #29
Author
Rob Lincoln
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1985
Uploaded
July 06, 2007
Track Files
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MP3 2.5 MB 128 kbps 2:41
Story behind the song
Tried an experiment.... Why not write 3 or 4 seperate narratives at once? Though I did not know it at the time, this song was a precursor to a good chunk of my later work (post 2001) This one works best if listened to through headphones. There's some sublimnal stuff at work here. Mp3 listeners thus far have given this a quite high 4.5 out of 5.0 rating: "This was fun" "wild" "imaginative"
Lyrics
Saw a man rasslin' alligator Found out later it was crocodile Thought I was eatin mashed potato But it really was chemical lies I ordered from the menu They said the wrestler was in dire staits I ordered giblit gravy He put his head inside his mouth as bait Don't look up-there he is He's looking at you and he's chompin' at the bit Just close your eyes, he'll go away He'll come again some other day I was sittin' on the sofa Thought I'd seen your face before It wasn't Marlene Dietrich It wasn't Zsa Zsa Gabor I asked you if I knew you You told me it was getting late I hadn't seen the movie But I knew it wasn't twist of fate Don't look up-there he is He's looking at you and he's chompin' at the bit Just close your eyes, he'll go away He'll come again some other day E=MC squared E=MC squared E=MC E=Empty E=MC squared I walked into Dennys I saw your toothy grin right away It was an old film I thought you never even planned to stay I couldn't eat the meatball I hope they didn't hurt the animal And yes it was Boris Karloff And all the stage is a Shakespeare film Don't look up-there he is He's looking at you and he's chompin' at the bit Just close your eyes, he'll go away He'll come again some other day Some other day (ad nauseum) Don't look!
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