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#76-Pauline (1985)
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Catchy folk ditty with sing along chorus about a girl from 1917
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 #409
Peak in subgenre #67
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1985
Uploaded
July 29, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.4 MB 128 kbps 4:47
Story behind the song
Inspired by a silent movie, I've always thought this has one of my nicer melodies. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 4.0 out of 5.0.....Comments included: "This one has great potential" "like the first two chords... the change from the root chord to the major third. It does lead to a nice melody. and, the words, emotion, chords and melody seem to jive nicely on this one." "Lyrics in bridge need rework" "Very nice!"
Lyrics
One dusty day very late in May Around the turn of the century A baby surprised opened up her eyes To see who she would be Her name was Pauline Prettiest girl you've ever seen Her daddy called her Jenny-Mae We played in the fields Swam the creeks Fished for our meals But then I grew up and ran away Where have you gone to my sweet Pauline? Down by the old green pond and the dandelions Last time I saw you I was barely 17 And I'll keep searching by and by One dark December night We rolled up that Miller's Pike In a very early Cheverlet The darn thing got stuck We nearly drowned in the muck But we managed to push it all the way Where have you gone to my sweet Pauline? Down by the old green pond and the dandelions Last time I saw you I was barely 17 And I'll keep searching by and by Then the Great War came and I went off to fight When I came back you were damn near out of sight One January morn I'll stop back by the barn Where I still hear your voice But this time I'll walk away From that snowy day To where the dew is still moist Where have you gone to my sweet Pauline? Down by the old green pond and the dandelions Last time I saw you I was barely 17 And I'll keep searching by and by Where have you gone to my sweet Pauline? Down by the old green pond and the dandelions Last time I saw you I was barely 17 And I'll keep searching by and by And I'll keep searching by and by
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