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#167- Me & My Aunt (1997)
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Inspired by Me & My Uncle...my apologies to the Gratetful Dead
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 #326
Peak in subgenre #44
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
July 27, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.9 MB 128 kbps 3:10
Story behind the song
This one was never performed. The story is somewhat reminiscent of the old folk song Me & My Uncle. I tried to do a Lesh like bass line and failed. Weekly e-mail listeners gave this a 4.0 out of 5....Comments included: "More Weir than Garcia" "Musically better than lyrically, some of your better guitar work thus far" "Nice bass part" "Nice beat" "Don’t care for the put-on accent, didn’t really pick up on what it was about even though I listened to it 3 times" "some rhymes are a bit contrived"
Lyrics
Me & my aunt went to Tex Arkan Me & my aunt went to farm the land Me & my aunt farmed in Tex Arkan Till sheriff Jed he played his hand My aunt & me went to Tennessee My aint & me free in Tennessee My aunt & me till my bride to be Showed up one night about 10:30 Giddyup giddy yup from Tex Arkan Giddyup giddy yup from Tennessee Giddyup giddy yup from the lawman Giddyup giddy yup from my bride to be And her little one that don't look like me Me & my aunt we played some craps Me and my aunt rolled against Old Fats Me and my aunt we were in a trap Rolled snake eyes and they whistled Taps My aunt & me we tried to run My aunt & me were just there for fun My aunt & me we knew we won And it was there I had to use my gun Giddyup giddy yup from the gambling men Giddyup giddy yup we'll ride again Giddyup giddy yup we shared the cash Giddyup giddy yup we had to split our path And now they've caught my little ass My aunt's still somewhere down the road My aunt's still somewhere growing old A touch of gray, brown eyes and sipping wine While I pay my dues and do my time
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