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#263-To Leon Czolgosz (2002)
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Strange upbeat tune sung to McKinley's assassin
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 #206
Peak in subgenre #33
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
February 07, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.5 MB 168 kbps 2:54
Story behind the song
The lyrics are directed to the assassin of President McKinley but the music sounds like it should be snappin Bobby Darin (crooner version) and a horn section. The one person I played this song to said no one cares about McKinley, much less his assassin---which is exactly what the song is about.
Lyrics
Don’t say I killed McKinley in Buffalo It was you from the start with your hankie without a heart And your shallow little gallows where the fallow land does cry In a country full of hubris you thought he was the one to die Did it matter what Ida was bound to feel Did you take into account “that Damn Cowboy” deal Imperialism was shot that day or was it William M Was the stocking foot orator simply one of them? Who remembers you? Who remembers him? Turn the page again He cried out in pain to please not hurt you bad His concentration camps probably made him sad The man and his deeds they did not always jive We might have seen a different Bill if he had stayed alive Chorus Did your neck snap or was it the electric chair? As the world cried for him did anybody care? But now nobody knows it’s so dusty and so grave A footnote to a paragraph on an obscure history page
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