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#202-Mr. Hired Gunn (2000)
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Strange harder edged acoustic tune full of weird puns and run on imagery
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 #147
Peak in subgenre #38
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2000
Uploaded
January 11, 2009
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MP3 3.9 MB 128 kbps 4:15
Story behind the song
What's it about? You tell me. Written in a 5 minute flurry and recorded immediately upon being written.
Lyrics
Mr. Hired Gunn sip your coke and run to the nearest racing ambulance Mr. Hired Gunn shooting at the sun, surfing to the website laundramat CHORUS He’s come and gone before the sirens start erupting He’s a washing hands with paunchy pilots quite disgusting Hired Gun Mr. Hired Gunn love your naked bum steer to the rear ending your TV Mr. Hired Gunn trigger weighs a ton age slowly but don’t catch TB Chorus Mr Hired Gunn intended was the pun that you seem to smoke before the crime Mr. Hired Gunn you’re marrying the nun, then mix your lemons with the sublime Chorus Mr. Hired Gunn license you for fun let you take your toll out on the road Mr. Hired Gunn they love you just like mum, hoping you won’t birth a lethal load Chorus
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