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#284-Born To Follow- 2004
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Song about a soldier. Anti-war, but more sad than angry.
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 #267
Peak in subgenre #39
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2004
Uploaded
July 06, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:47
Story behind the song
Written during the height of the Iraq War. How many US soldiers have died since then? I wonder how many Iraqi civilians died as a result of this war of choice. Do you?
Lyrics
Charlie was a soldier He loved his country oh so well A rather gentle fellow Thought he'd just give them hell Willing to give it all his best Never did think of giving less Had to get back at those terrorists Hassan and Malik now lie in a shallow grave Someone shot them dead Though the rest he tried to save How it made his stomach sick But sergeant said to make it quick Sarge said they had to do it quick Easy to mislead Though he wasn't shallow He wanted to believe But it was so hollow He was born to follow Along Right or wrong Charlie's going home now He's in a steel box Had to pay his dues there Never saw the paradox Did it all for freedom's claims never for the oil man's gains Couldn't bear to see the truth so plain Easy to mislead Though he wasn't shallow He wanted to believe But it was so hollow He was born to follow Along Right or wrong
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