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#183- I Will Be There (1997)
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Simple 12 string acoustic ditty about immortality
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)
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Peak #254
Peak in subgenre #52
Author
Rob Lincoln
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1997
Uploaded
September 28, 2008
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MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:28
Story behind the song
I see this as kind of a throw-back song--very simplistic both musically and lyrically. It is like a bit like a song I wrote in the late 1970's. Do you recognize which one? Weekly listeners were divided on this one. Like my late 70's song, some found it simplistic and lame, others found it universal and touching. Overall it received a 3.8...Comments included: "Very pleasant but doesn’t really stand out" "really sounded honest, unpretentious and the kind of song we could write in the innocent 70's" "WOW! I really like this one. Guess it's the 60's girl in me. I like the melody and I like the lyrics. It sounds like the other favorite"
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I will be there with the sunrise skies I will be there when you open your eyes I will be there with the morning dew I will be there when I think of you I will be there on the sunny days I will be there when there's only haze I will be there when things go your way I will be there when it's an ordinary day I will be there when things are not ok I will be there when there's nothing to say I will be there when the sun don't shine I will be there in the darkest of time I will be there I will be there As long as you care I will be there when you can't see me I will be there when I cease to be I will be there as long as you have a mind I will be there till the end of your time I will be there after you have gone I will be there when someone hears this song
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