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#17 All In One Day (1981)
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Highly romantic love song on 12 string influenced by the writing of Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin during his Surrealistic Pillow period
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
Rock Rock Unplugged
Charts
Peak #547
Peak in subgenre #15
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1981
Uploaded
January 07, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.6 MB 128 kbps 3:53
Story behind the song
I wrote this one in early 1981 during a period when I was listening to one of my favorite albums from the 60's, Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow. Listening to this song now, I hear a lot of Marty Balin influence--the writer of many of the songs on that album. He's about as romantic a lyricist as you get. And this is one of my most romantic love songs---very uncharacteristic of my later stuff. Average Mp3 club rating was 4.0 out of 5...... The highest rated tune so far received virtually no negative comments. Some comments included: "Really pretty song" "I really like the melody and lyrics" "Found myself humming this one all day" "I never heard this idea...fresh" "I think you should send it to Marty Balin" only negative comment was "I didn't understand 'I lost it' I thought it should be 'I found it'"
Lyrics
All in one day I saw the golden sun rise over the hill All in one day I felt a warm breeze blowing All in one day I lost control and let my senses feel All in one day I realized what you mean to me Before the sunrise my eyes could only see the darkness And in early morning they were covered in dew But just before sunset I heard the birds inside their warm nest And then I lost it, oh I had to run to you All in one day I felt the sun beat down in the afternoon All in one day I saw a flower growing All in one day I closed my eyes but I saw only you All in one day I couldn't stop it showing Before the sunrise my eyes could only see the darkness And in early morning they were covered in dew But just before the sunset I heard the birds inside their warm nest And then I lost it, oh I had to run to you All in one day....(ad nauseum)
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