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#179- Swing Low Scheherazade (1997)
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Little Beatlesque acoustic riff, strange falsetto harmonies and incomprehensible lyrics
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 #269
Peak in subgenre #51
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
September 14, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:36
Story behind the song
This was an experimental stream of conciousness song, partially rewritten yesterday as most of the original music was lost. The style is more like my post 2002 songwriting. Weekly listeners rated this a 4.2 out of 5.0...Comments included: "Probably not. I loved the eerie sound " "Liked your voice in this one and the music" "Nice music, wierd lyrics" "What the heck our you talking about? Whatever...I still like it"
Lyrics
Swing low Scheherazade Bring down your clear facade Gonzo pink honeymoon Let go and smell one fume Swing Low/Scheherazade Sound off one two three Go down in lost harmony Sound off 4, 5, 9 Move up to go down the line Swing Low/Scheherazade Swing low vehicle of fire Burn off cellular desire Hanging live from a tree Was a man burnt lavishly Swing Low/Scheherazade Swing low and hit the ball Follow it down to the violent mall Swing high and fly the kite Keep it skyward with all your might Swing Low/Scheherazade
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