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#138- Shalom Achshav (1992)
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A peace song which means 'Peace Now' in Hebrew
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 #249
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1992
Uploaded
March 23, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.6 MB 128 kbps 1:48
Story behind the song
This song is the only song I have written thus far that uses a foreign phrase. "Shalom Achshav" means "Peace Now" in Hebrew and is the name of a peace organization in Israel. Honestly, I do not really understand the complexities of Israeli/Palestinian politics. My friends and family in Israel all want peace but obviously it's not as easy as simply shouting "Peace Now." However, it can't hurt. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.6 out of 5.0.... Comments included: "Maybe a little too fast. I’d love to hear it with some traditional instruments. "Shalom Acshav had a good rhythm and was rousing and hopeful however given my time here and an all too familiarity with the situation its hard to be as hopeful and believe that if we all just drop our guns and join hands..."
Lyrics
No more eye for eye No more tooth for tooth No more tear for tear Peace Now Peace Now No more broken hearts No more scars on scars No more lies on lies Peace Now Peace Now Shalom Shalom Shalom Achshav Shalom Shalom Shalom Achshav No more crying child No more dying hope No more pointing fingers Peace Now Peace Now No more looking back No more tit for tat No more standing pat Peace Now Peace Now Shalom Shalom Shalom Achshav Shalom Shalom Shalom Achshav If not now then when? This day won't come again Yes we can begin Peace Now Please Now All over the world If we look forward Working towards the words Peace Now Peace Now Shalom Shalom Shalom Achshav Shalom Shalom Shalom Achshav Peace Now Please Now Peace Now Peace Now
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