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#273-You Are A Practical Person (2003)
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Silly ditty created in an exercise using a fortune cookie fortune
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
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2003
Uploaded
April 18, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 0.9 MB 128 kbps 1:01
Story behind the song
One of 5 songs written during the Smmer Songfest in 2003. The title is from a fortune cookie fortune. the song was written in 5 minutes (and it sounds like it was)
Lyrics
You are a practical person with your feet on the ground You are a monster at ease when you eat your ground round You are loveable killer with your hair in the air You like to read a good thriller that is full of despair You are a practical person with your feet on the ground You are emotionally stable while wearing a frown You are a captain of peace in the Danish airforce You are writhing in joy when you're on your dead horse I don't know who you are but you're certainly not me I saw you in your ear at a quarter to three You are a dyslectic defector from the last century You are completely unruly so I'll take you to tea You are a practical person with your feet on the ground You are swallowing swords when your troll comes to the town You are Castillian red when it's spraypainted blue You're head's not in the clouds cause you hunt at the zoo You are a practical person with your feet on the ground You are a practical person with your feet on the ground
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