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#19- Thursday's Child (1981)
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Creepy psychedelic acoustic tune with 23 hidden references in the lyrics to songs about days...dig the harpsichord
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 #782
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1981
Uploaded
January 13, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.8 MB 128 kbps 4:06
Story behind the song
Can you find the 23 references? More a riddle than a lyric, the concept was that there are songs about every day of the week but Thursday. At the time I didn't realize but it was probably the first psychedelic song I'd written. It's a style I would return to quite a bit about 20 years later. Please note that Bowie's song Thursday's Child was written more than 15 years AFTER I wrote this song. This was performed live a few times by Hearthstone, but never really jelled.... Mp3 listeners gave this an average rating of 3.4 out of 5..... Some listener comments included: "Love the harpsichord," "This one is actually better than I expected" "Interesting concept, but I couldn't get into it emotionally" "Good melody" "Would be better if the singer was a woman"..... One listener found references to 18 songs. If anyone can match or top that I will send you a free CD. If you get all 23 references, I will send you two different free CDs.
Lyrics
Every day every child has its song Yesterday, tomorrow, today, it won't be long Monday morning can you trust that day In the afternoon on Tuesday will you chase the clouds away? Oh Thursday's child I wonder if she smiles She's got no identity At night she mends her stockings Wednesdays in bed at 3AM Dreaming to be caught at the sunrise by a man Your sister Friday people thank God for They got her on their mind the Tuesday before But not Thursday's child I wonder if she smiles She's got no identiity Her bootlace was tied by Ruby Ruby goodbye the day before you sure looked fine Tuesday ain't yet dead and you can change alright Your Saturday lovers think ahead to the park But they'll be fighting alright as soon as its dark But not Thursday's child I wonder if she smiles She's got no identity At night she mends her stockings One more Saturday and you still ain't got nobody Will your sisters' lovers being staying after Sunday? And even lazy Sunday she'll never be the same Are you hoping that come Monday you'll bring her down with the rain? But not Thursday's child I wonder if she smiles She's got no identity Her bootlace was tied by Ruby
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