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#131-Looking Through A Marmalade Jar
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Gentle finger picking song of childhood memories in a blur
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 #319
Peak in subgenre #48
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1991
Uploaded
February 24, 2008
Track Files
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MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:26
Story behind the song
I asked my musical partner Steve Lessick to give me something unusual to write about--he told me "Orange Peels." That was the name of this song never heard by anyone (but him) until now. I've changed it to a more appropriate title. The song takes some of my earliest memories as a child and paints an idyllic picture. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.8 out of 5.0...Comments included: "Love it!" "Love the vocal melody on the chorus" "Nice finger picking on this one" "It’s a sweet song (no pun intended) but many lyrics are awkward"
Lyrics
Long ago and far away in a day I don't remember The sun rays came over a cloudy day Go to a long ago September Looking through a marmalade jar Next to a golden jar of honey Never minded those orange peels Still thought that they looked so very sunny Past the path by the little stream Down the hill beyond the backyard A little kid is running still He's looking for the front yard Looking through a marmalade jar Next to a golden jar of honey Never minded those orange peels Still thought that they looked so very sunny Walking up the country lane The new houses have just been born Trees grow high a thousand miles Into robin egg blue morn Walked for miles past the old schoolyard Count the acorns till it gets too hard Butterfly nets can never find The swallowtail that flies so high Long ago and far away It is real I do remember Marshmellow cloud sunburst sky It was a far away September Looking through a marmalade jar Next to a golden jar of honey Never minded those orange peels Still thought the day looked so very sunny
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