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#71- Ocean In The Rain (1985)
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Inspired by a rainy day in Southern Florida, and slightly by Jimmy Buffett.
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 #179
Peak in subgenre #29
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1985
Uploaded
July 15, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 3:21
Story behind the song
This song was written when I was visiting Southern Florida and started heading to Route 1A in Ft. Lauderdale when it started raining. It was originally titled The Windshield Wiper Song. It's now called Ocean In The Rain. Please e-mail me if you have a better title though. Tried to get a bit of a Jimmy Buffet feel. Mp3 club listeners gave this a 3.5 out of 5.0 rating: "Doesn't feel like Jimmy Buffet to me" "It's A1A, not route 1A" "I liked the vibe and there are a couple of good lines too"
Lyrics
Heading down to the ocean Windshield wipers wiping Foggy windows steaming Rear view mirror crying Took Route 1A down now Ain't no woods ain't no mountains Goin down to the seacoast Under a water fountain See the rain on the sand dunes Wash away all the tourists Sipping margaritas in their hotel forests Heading up by the seacoast Windshield wipers wiping Roll the windows down 'bit Splash your eyes and they ripen See the rain on the sand dunes Wash away all the tourists Sipping margaritas in their hotel forests See the rain on the beach now Once a beer chugging pow wow See the gray clouds come now Drown the grains of sand Heading down to the ocean Windshield wipers wiping Foggy windows steaming Rear view mirror crying Heading down to the ocean Heading down to the ocean Heading down to the ocean Heading down to the ocean
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