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#88-Pauper & The Queen (1988)
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This is a live Lessick & Lincoln performance with Steve Lessick on congas and harmonies. It has a nice build up.
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 #1,079
Peak in subgenre #37
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1988
Uploaded
September 09, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.0 MB 128 kbps 5:26
Story behind the song
About a relationship I was in. No there weren't real dungeons and chains. It's just figuratively speaking. This Lessick and Lincoln performance is from 1991 at the Mermaid Inn. Mo3 listeners gave this an average rating of 3.0 out of 5.0..Their comments included: "Very good folk song, but make it shorter or faster" "Sorry ... I didn't think the story stayed interesting enough for such a long song" "good arrangement"
Lyrics
He came from a river town He saw her in her yellow gown He came from a He came from a river town She came from a castle gray In the mountains far away She came from a She came from a castle gray She took him in her castle gray At night her jewels shone a sparkling ray She took him in her She took him in her castle gray But when the light of day did shine A bright lit dungeon he did find When the light of When the light of day did shine She chained his arms but not his legs She made him cry she made him beg She chained his arms but She chained his arms but not his legs Then she cut the chains off and shook his hand Then shipped him off to a foreign land She cut the chains off She cut the chains off and shook his hand And now he fights for the yellow queen's side Love can be conquered by her pride Now he fights for Now he fights for the yellow queen's side Now he fights for the yellow queen's side Love can be conquered by his pride Now he fights for Now he fights for the yellow queens side Yeh now he fights for the yellow queen's side Love can be conquered by our pride Love can be conquered by our pride Love can be conquered By... our pride
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