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#133-Little Wendy (1992)
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An urban story of the 'Two America's' and poverty set to a Peter Pan metaphor
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 #685
Peak in subgenre #78
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1992
Uploaded
March 02, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:52
Story behind the song
Little Wendy was inspired by a little girl from North Philly named Wendy I had in my class that year I was teaching my first full year as a public school teacher. I was appalled by the inequality of our educational system and this sad lullaby was also inspired by the story of Peter Pan. The cd version is beautifully sung by Steve Lessick on lead, but this is a rare solo performance, cracking voice and all. Mp3 listeners rated this a 4.3 out of 5.0.... Comments included: "Nothing can beat the Lessick & Lincoln version, but you can still tell it's a good song" "Little Wendy is a beautiful and emotional song" "I liked it ok"
Lyrics
Little Wendy I'll come to you at night In your dreams I'll take you up in flight Over sidewalks houses and crack viles I will show you how to dream in style Little Wendy there are people who live where Lawns are green the smell of cut grass fills the air Streets are clean and the children they can play And no bullets are ever found to stray I'll wipe the darkness from your eyes Take you up in the nightime sky No it's not Never Never Land But it's a place to dream of Just take my hand Little Wendy come away with me Let my spririt guide you to be free You and me we're both on the same side Little Wendy there is no reason to cry We're not flying far away Just a bit over the Expressway To another part of your city Don't the houses look so nice and so pretty? Little Wendy dream with me tonight That you can have what they have without flight Little Wendy don't open your eyes Little Wendy just believe in lies Little Wendy please believe in lies Little Wendy Little Wendy Little Wendy Litle Wendy Just believe
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