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#96- Holiday (1989)-archive tape
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A homeless man fantasizes about getting on a casino bus and winning the jackpot
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 #435
Peak in subgenre #70
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
October 07, 2007
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MP3 3.9 MB 128 kbps 4:13
Story behind the song
Holiday has a rather monotonous song structure. However, you may find the fact that the dynamics build up in emotion, volume and well as tempo interesting enough if you find the lyrics in any way compelling. The song is from the perspective of a street person who decides to take a holiday in his mind...and go down to the Atlantic City casinos. It is from an archive tape recorded not soon after the song was written. Mp3 club listeners rated this a 3.3 out of 5.0....Comments included: "Holiday was as you described it... but if montonous, then you're in good company with Dylan, Neil Young, acoustic Springsteen""Not too compelling" "Kind of funny"
Lyrics
Got 50 quarters in my cup (2x) Ain't gonna go to Micky Dees (2x) Gonna take a holiday (2x) Packing up from my home street (2x) Tearing off my winter rags (2x) Gonna take a holliday (2x) They're gonna let me on that bus They won't notice my old shoe Gonna take a holiday (2x) Be on that double decker bus Be on that AC Expressway Gonna take a holiday (2x) And I'm going to the shore Got my quarters I ain't poor Gonna take a holiday (2x) Steppin' out into the light (2x) Going to that fine hotel (2x) Gonna take a holiday (2x) Goin' to pull that shiny arm (2x) Three golden nuggets in a row (2x) Gonna take a holiday (2x) I'm gonna count that silver coin (2x) I'm gonna buy me some sirloin (2x) Gonna take a holiday (2x) I'm gonna buy me a town car (2x) I'm gonna drive it to this bar (2x) Gonna take a holiday (4x) And when all my money's spent (2x) I'm gonna drive it to this vent Gonna park it by my vent Gonna take a holiday (2x) Gonna lay my body down (2x) Down into the ground Down into the cold cold ground Gonna take a holiday (6x)
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