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#261-Bird of Paradise (2002)
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Vague environmental message with catchy melody
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 #246
Peak in subgenre #37
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
January 24, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.4 MB 159 kbps 2:06
Story behind the song
This one flowed out in less than 5 minutes. The subject matter may be fauna or flora, bird or flower, whichever you wish it to be... or perhaps it isn't literal at all.
Lyrics
When you’ve cooked the bird of paradise Basting in fragrant delight Don’t you ever think just twice For the Bird of Paradise When you go into its flowery nest Petal plumage in distress Wing takes flight while root takes rest For the bird of paradise River crying down in water rolling through the ground Palm trees swaying out of order hear the weeping sound When you slay the lamb and spare your thirst Rod turns to water in reverse The broken balance is the curse For the bird of paradise River… Goslings honking out of order bellowing their sound If the golden goose is cooked today The blind and kind are washed away The blood and spilled tears led astray For the bird of paradise
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