Song picture
#110-Dolphin (1989)(archive tape)
Comment Share
Single   $0.5
About the most wonderful of mammals. (Old archive recording-temporary placement until re-recorded.)
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
Artist picture
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 #299
Peak in subgenre #45
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
December 02, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.8 MB 128 kbps 3:01
Story behind the song
I was outraged when I read about how hundreds of dolphins were being killed by tuna fisherman. The dolphins would swim alongside the boats in their friendly way and get caught and strangled in the nets. For any of you unfamiliar with this remarkable animal, it has been historically recorded that dolphins have acyually saved drowning people throughout the ages, coming to their rescue and risking their lives to bring them near to shore. This was the first song I brought to the Philadelphia Area Songwriters' Alliance (PASA). It was heavily criticized, I believe unfairly. One songwriter was particularly unfair I thought. Someone argued that the song had no value and did not need to be written and the lyrics should be about something else since the issue was resolved and fisherman now would be heavily fined. I just read two weeks ago that hundereds of dolphins are still being killed annually from fisherman. This song is in a D tuning. Check out the lyrics. Makes me want to be a vegetarian. Well at least I don't eat my fellow mammal. (Since August 2nd, 1982 when I accidentally ate an Egg McMuffin) Mp3 Club listeners gave this an average rating of 3.2 out of 5.... Some comments included: "Melody is nice but a bit too repetitive"
Lyrics
I saw her swimming-smiling wide Laughing above the fresh white tide Playing happy--silly and brave The ocean's her home--jumping the waves And I looked in her eyes And I knew she was wise She saved the sailors from the sinking ship They held on, she wouldn't let them slip A gentle friend, giving life and hope Trusting all who man the boat And I looked in her eyes And I knew she was wise How could she know in her innocence That those she came to greet would bring her death? What will she think as she struggles in their net? Childlike language we don't understand Is she of stronger heart & mind, & we of stronger hand? Swimming freely 10,000 years Had she our thumb Had we her tears (Had we her heart, had she our fears) And I looked in her eyes And I knew she was wise
Song Likes
Comments
Please sign up or log in to post a comment.