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#106- Goin Home (1989)
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Sleepy little country song about driving late at night and looking forward to getting home
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 #235
Peak in subgenre #67
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
November 11, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.8 MB 128 kbps 3:02
Story behind the song
I like driving late at night when no cars are on the road. I guess that is what inspired this one. This song was once selected out of every song I had written (through 1992), to be performed by Steve Perlsweig in a Philadelphia Area Songwriters Event where we covered other members tunes. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.6 our of 5.0.... Comments included: "One of your most commercial tunes" "With a stringer vocal performance or different vocalist I could hear this on a radio,""Goin' Home has just the right simple country folk sound to make it a classic Willie Nelson, Nashville Skyline era Dylan" "More boring than most of your tunes, not one of my favories" "kinda generic for you"
Lyrics
Hit the highway again Suns going down behind My cars a gettin' cold As I cross the county line Turn up the old car heat Turn on the radio Listen to the country beat Oh I'm goin home Pass the red tail lights Traffic going my way Deep into the night On a bridge over a bay Watch the moon shine bright But stay between the lines Ain't no traffic lights And I'm doing real good time Here comes the exit sign Slow down and pay the toll Driving through the streets Late at night good for the soul Flick on the turn signal Though no ones behind Through familiar streets And I'm feeling real fine Here in my town tonight House lights through the trees Got to my street at last I'ts where I want to be Turn off the old car heat Turn off the radio Back in your arms again Oh I'm goin' home Goin home
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