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#78- You & I (1986)
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This finger picking ditty is an original archival cassette recording from 1986
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)
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Peak #529
Peak in subgenre #74
Author
Rob Lincoln
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1986
Uploaded
August 05, 2007
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MP3 2.7 MB 128 kbps 2:57
Story behind the song
This fingerpicking ditty was about a short lived relationship, as was Night. Except this one I knew would not last forever. It's the original 1986 archive recording. I re-learned the guitar perfectly, but felt I could not recapture the feeling in the vocals, at least not this week--so here is the original cassette recording. This one averaged a 3.7 out of 5.0 from the Mp3 Club....Comments included: "Great guitar picking riff" "Good song though I thought the fingerpicking guitar was a bit frantic. I think it should be done slower" "I hear a bit of Simon and Garfunkel on this one" "there are a couple lines (that stand out).... this one makes me want to laugh... 'blessed each other's sneezes' but, laughing doesn't seem appropriate in this sensitve song....it's a clever line, but it jolts me a little....also, the word 'silly' jolts me too...seems like kid's word in an adult's song....there are many words that could replace it"
Lyrics
You & I by the green, green fields You & I bumming into town You and I remember how it feels You and I touched that golden ground Just a silly few moments From two never meant to be In a fading horizon Melting into sea You and I taste the peppermint breezes You and I hold each other's eyes You and I blessed each other's sneezes You and I holding lovely lies Just a silly few moments From two never meant to be In a fading horizon Melting into sea You and I by the goden beaches You and I searching for the wind You and I picking unseen peaches You and I without love or sin You and I catch those summer breezes (4x)
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