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#211-(LIVE)Garden of The Rain (2000)
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Live recording of me and my 12 string singing a poetic number
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 #123
Peak in subgenre #20
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2000
Uploaded
March 08, 2009
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MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:38
Story behind the song
This was written as part of the 28 songs that came out during a 72 hour period in early April 2000. It has always been one of my favorites which is why I selected it to perform at my gig on 1/10/09 at the Barrington. The recording (as well as added bass part) are by Blair Savercool.
Lyrics
I came upon your sunset smile Resting by the final mile Tears are falling way on high Then you drank right from the sky In the garden of the rain Growing flowers out of pain Don’t pick the thorns now In the Garden of the Rain I walked along with solitude I heard her speak she said she’s you And then you turned with marble eyes And made a fountain just your size In the garden of the rain Growing flowers out of pain Don’t pick the thorns now In the Garden of the Rain Smell the roses though they're not there Just pretend there everywhere Catch the raindrop with your eye And if you b;link you can not cry I saw you there 12 years before Rusted gates were an open door And now you only walk alone I wish that you were not of stone Smell the roses though they're not there Just pretend there everywhere Catch the raindrop with your eye And if you b;link you can not cry In the garden of the rain Growing flowers out of pain Don’t pick the thorns now In the Garden of the Rain
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