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#199- Southern Bound (2000)
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Song about a ghost train with mournful fiddle
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 #245
Peak in subgenre #39
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2000
Uploaded
December 28, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.5 MB 160 kbps 3:54
Story behind the song
This was the first song of many written in the span of three days in April 2000. It was inspired by some old train tracks which I believed were not in use although I began hearing a train late at night. This song has received multiple comments at www.songramp.com/RobLincoln (cap sensitve)
Lyrics
Southern Bound Gather up your weary bones You’re gonna leave your final home Look out no roads lead to Rome CHORUS When you’re Southern Bound Southern Bound Listen to the rails at night Hear the iron wheels it just feels right But the old engines not in sight Chorus BRIDGE And in the sky the Northern Lights Shining through the cloud filled night It seems like yesterday when the old train came this way These old tracks are overgrown Broken glass and beer cans thrown But you still hear the moan Chorus instrumental harmonica on bridge Behind the rotted station’s wooden door Memories are peeling paint and nothing more See that dirty ticket on the floor You’re Southern Bound Southern Bound C 2000 by Rob Lincoln
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