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#237-Not In Time (2002) multi-track version
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Strange and dark little finger picking song
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 #239
Peak in subgenre #42
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
August 02, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.7 MB 123 kbps 1:57
Story behind the song
Loosely based on a terrible incident in someone elses life I'd rather not get into, at least not at this time
Lyrics
The car goes far into the yard It crashes into me The same old dying words I heard that this was meant to be She saved him But not in time And the blood was flowing free The cracking whip upon her hip And this is how it goes The alibis, the sun streaked lies The very stuck up knows He saved her But not in time And the words Went flowing free The rail's insane The train's deranged It stumbles from it's tracks The mouse that roared That he abhors A monkey on her back You saved me But not in time And now the thoughts are running free
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