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#72- Bartlesville (1985)
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Countryish song from a trucker's perspective about hauling smelly hogs
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 #227
Peak in subgenre #22
Author
Rob Lincoln
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1985
Uploaded
July 15, 2007
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MP3 3.4 MB 128 kbps 3:45
Story behind the song
This song has not one, but three anecdotes attached to it. 1) When I was driving my dad's cat from Baltimore to NYC in 1985 I smelled something really bad all of a sudden. I looked at the cat. He looked at me. And we both were suspicious of each other until I noticed a truck next to my car in the other lane that was full of pigs. It was not until then that I fully appreciated the things some truck drivers have to go through. So I determined to write a truck driver's song from their perspective 2) In the process of writing I needed a location. I wanted it to be somewhere I was unfamiliar with, so I took a map and closed my eyes and pointed. My finger landed on Bartlesville, Oklahoma. 3) Recently, not only was Bartlesville in the news because of serious flooding, but it turns out I may be visiting there in two weeks when I have to travel to Tulsa for my job. Bartlesville is 45 minutes from there. 4) And one more note, though not an anecdote--- This is my only song I have written to date that features a curse word. But it's the trucker in me talking of course. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.8 out of 5.0...Comments included: "I didn't much care for the song, but I sure loved the story behind it! "I looked at the cat. He looked at me". Meow!" "I liked this one" "nice honky tonk feel" "You didn't convince me you were a trucker...where's the CB?" "Tom Petty of Johhny Cash- I could hear how difficult it was for you to emit the F word!"
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Two miles out of Tuscaloosa And again I got a flat Used my last spare hours ago I'm tired of this crap I've been hauling these smelly swine The past seven months My clothes they stink My hair smells bad I think I've had enough Oh Oh get me back to Bartlesville Near the Hula Lake that's where I get my thrill Spent two years in the service Three on the road Started out as a milk man Just outside Tupelo Have a little lady freind Eudora Damn she sure looks pretty Met her in a tavern Just outside Yazoo City Oh Oh get me back to Bartlesville Near the Hula Lake that's where I get my thrill Got to push on/Don't wanna push on I need those greenbacks/But I gotta relax somehow Have a little shack near Hula Lake And my woman there But it seems like I've been on the road Eleven months a year Oh Oh get me back to Bartlesville Near the Hula Lake that's where I get my thrill Got to push on/Don't wanna push on But I need those greenbacks/Gotta relax somehow Walking down the highway Left those oinkers in the truck Gonna stick my thumb out Cause I don't give a F--- Oh Oh get me back to Bartlesville Near the Hula Lake that's where I get my thrill Oh Oh get me back to Bartlesville Near the Hula Lake that's where I get my thrill Oh get me back to Bartlesville Oh get me back to Bartlesville
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