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#278-Down Alberta Way-electric-(2004)
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Dedicate to Neil Young. Electric grungy version found on my unreleased (as of 2010) Abrasive Flowers CD. Hear acoustic version which sounds pretty different.
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
Genre
Metal Power Metal
Charts
Peak #33
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2004
Uploaded
May 23, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.9 MB 160 kbps 3:24
Story behind the song
Just slightly inspired by Neil Young. Doesn't really sound like him except that there is an electric and acoustic version that are very different from each other.
Lyrics
Old man Simply singing sadly nice songs Down Alberta Way Sing a sickle Seldom he was loud very long But sometimes every day Random story sung in a million ears of corn Down the old Susannah Got a bunion in my foot And it went blue forlorn But never too much gray What gives when you're rolling down the right shaft Half Savannah born? What sells when your sheep has been betting off track Waiting to be shorn? Lovers listen loosely if there is no fear Crying mindless mush Telecaster lying in scum filled old bong Gagging for the flush Got growths but it ain't got me no flowers Alabaster crazy and a half pint beer Freezing down the blind man in the burning towers Everlasting mother's tear Wompom poodle in the dire graft Sopping at the spinster in the sudden draft Angling for a Friday and you're of here Winnipeg and Thurston bringing up the rear Rusting on a Monday in the sodden wilds Often on a Thursday you can make him smile Get appointments in before it ends Is that always what it does my friend?
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