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#83- Caffeine Blues (1986)
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My first blues that actually uses a blues progression, it's a bit of a joke and quite fast for a blues
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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
Genre
Blues Blues General
Charts
Peak #189
Peak in subgenre #63
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1986
Uploaded
August 26, 2007
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MP3 3.9 MB 128 kbps 4:13
Story behind the song
I wanted to write a fun tune and I wanted to write a blues. I don't actually drink coffee much, but when I do, I'm up for 18 hours and bouncing off walls. Mp3 Club listeners rated this a 3.9 out of 5.0....Some of their comments included: "Can't really go wrong with a blues song-always sounds good whatever the lyrics-a bit Dylan /Steven Stills" "Like it"
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I've got the caffeine blues and I can't slow down I've got the caffeine blues mama I can't slow down I need caffeine every day to make me come around sip....(sound effect) Coffee for breakfast Coca cola at ten Coffee at 11, 11:30 again For lunchtime at 12 I take the Pepsi challenge then I've got the caffeine blues and I can't slow down I've got the caffeine blues mama I can't slow down I need caffeine every day to make me come around You say I'm hyper, you say I'm always high You say I'm nervous, I don't know why I don't need valium and I won't let drugs get me by I've got the caffeine blues and I can't slow down I've got the caffeine blues mama I can't slow down I need caffeine every day to make me come around Now there are sometimes when I have to come down Yes sometimes I have to come down or I'll soon be dead So I take my Lipton and my Red Rose before I go to bed sip (sound effect) I've got the caffeine blues and I can't slow down I've got the caffeine blues mama I can't slow down I need caffeine every day, I take it freshly ground
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