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#134-McDonald (1992)
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It's about losing the farm. The lead off track from Lessick and Lincoln's 1994 CD has boisterous harmonies. This solo version is grittier.
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 #323
Peak in subgenre #37
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1992
Uploaded
March 02, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.2 MB 128 kbps 2:23
Story behind the song
McDonald received more airplay than any of my songs (thus far). I heard it on three different stations on at least 8 occassions. It probably got played about a dozen times total. Never got any royalties though. As the lead off track of the 1994 cd it was upbeat and catchy but I never played it solo as what made the song was the dramatic harmonies. Well for this project I decided to do it a whole different way. Mp3 listners gave McDonald a 4.0 out of 5.0...Comments included: "Catchy" "This one is really cool, a neat concept. I think you could develop it more though...it kind of starts to take you there, and drops you off before you get to the farm." "I'm familiar with McDonald from the Lessick & Lincoln cd. Your solo version McDonald was straight out of Nirvanna Unplugged"
Lyrics
Old McDonald he had a cow Had a cow on the family farm The cow it was the first to go E-I-E-I-E-I-O McDonald He don't have that cow no more Old McDonald he had a pig Had a pig on the family farm The pig it was the next to go E-I-E-I-E-I-O McDonald He don't have that pig no more Old McDonald he had some chickens Clucking around on the family farm The chickens they just had to go E-I-E-I-E-I-O McDonald He don't have those chickens no more Old McDonald he had a horse Had a horse and his name was Bill Of course it was the last to go E-I-E-I-E-I-O McDonald He don't have that horse no more Old McDonald he had a farm Till the big guys put him out Now he lives in the retirement home E-I-E-I-E-I-O McDonald He don't have that farm no more E-I-E-I-E-I-O
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