Name: #149- Snapdragon (1994) Live Lessick&Lincoln
Duration: 3 min 43 s
Channel: Rob Lincoln
Description: Song about a real life murder at a fast food restaurant--Live from Borders--1995

#149- Snapdragon (1994) Live Lessick&Lincoln

Rob Lincoln

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Song about a real life murder at a fast food restaurant--Live from Borders--1995

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Rob Lincoln

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

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Vocals

Charts

Peak #388

Peak in subgenre #49

Author

Rob Lincoln

Rights

1994

Uploaded

May 04, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:43

Story behind the song

This is a live Lessick & Lincoln performance of the third song of my murder trilogy (the other two were the previously posted You're Gone and Other Lives). This one is based on a real murder at a fast food restaurant. Note that many of my songs around 1994 are grim as I was having a rather grim time in 1994.

Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.4 out of 4.0....Commments included: " Harmonica could be right from Springsteen acoustic- grim and resigned to the 'meaness in this world.'" "Only fair"

Lyrics

Snapdragon tail waggin
She’s a gone gone gone
Grease monkey, blue-eyed flunky
She’s a gone gone gone

Clear gloved outlaw by the coleslaw
She’s gone gone gone
There’s the cash slip by the catsup
She’s gone gone gone

Down the interstate he goes
Where he stops nobody knows
Stealing money from the chicken man
Roy and Trigger they won’t understand

Buy an ear diamond, a real fine one
She’s gone gone gone
Go to the booze store in her new car
She’s gone gone gone

Down the interstate he goes
Where he stops nobody knows
Stealing money from the chicken man
Roy and Trigger they won’t understand

The gig is up now
You hear the bow wow
She’s gone gone gone
Had to pop your sister, now you miss her 
She’s gone gone gone

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