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#80- Brand New Day (1986)
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Little finger picking ditty about children
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 #217
Peak in subgenre #29
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1986
Uploaded
August 12, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 3:25
Story behind the song
This is a no frills solo version of the finger picking ditty that often opened Lessick & Lincoln sets back in 1989 and 1990. It was a favoirite at the Mermaid Inn. I think I had read some ee Cummings right before I wrote this. Brand New Day received an average rating of 4.3 out of 5.0.....Comments from the Mp3 Club included: "really nice lyrics, such as 'vegetables and monarchs'--- great comment on the human over pomposity... Dylan without the nasal." "That's a nice one" "I love the chorus. It sounds very much like Gordon Lightfoot."
Lyrics
Jilly opens up her eyes Like a present wrapped in ribbons and bows Rolls out of bed Lets the sun in through the window She steps into her sneaks Around the corner she does peek She sees Billy standing there smiling alone They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day ahead to grow Jilly Billy run down the block Past the sunflowers and the Sunoco Chasing a big black and yellow butterfly They wait for the green light They don't run through the yellow There'll be other butterflies to catch they know They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day ahead to grow Jilly Billy run to the store They buy some bubble gum Spit it on the floor once the flavor's done Go to the machine Buy some soda that is green Run down the sidewalk in the warm sun They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day ahead to grow There is more meaning In the cabbages & kings They know we all are vegetables or monarchs And it is what you find in the early state of mind Lies buried with the grown-ups in the pitch dark They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day They've got a brand new day ahead to grow We've got a brand new day ahead to grow
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