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#91-Baby Jordan's Song (1988)-archive
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Written to a new nephew in July 1988
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 #269
Peak in subgenre #53
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1988
Uploaded
September 23, 2007
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MP3 2.4 MB 128 kbps 2:36
Story behind the song
This song was written about 10 days after the birth of my nephew Jordan. He's now in college. I recorded it on a cassette as soon as I wrote it. This recording can therefore be dated on or about July 25th, 1988. To anyone who has a new baby in the family or can remember what it's like, I think you will relate. The weenie reference is the Bris of course (circumcision) Mp3 Club listeners rated this a 3.4 out of 5.0... Comments included: "Pretty good," "Cute," "Fun," "Wonder what he thinks of this now?"
Lyrics
Got your momma smiling Got your papa too Got your grandma saying they don't look like you And the very next day you look like old grandpa And the day after that you're like your other grandma Hey baby don't cry about it They love you for you Hey baby there's no doubt about it We love you for you You got your Auntie smiling Got your uncle too You got your grandpa saying that he looks like you Got everyone waiting to see if you burp And the whole world watched Your poor weenie get hurt Hey baby don't cry about it They love you for you Hey baby there's no doubt about it We love you for you You're the life of the party Where you'll whine and you'll dine And when your tummy's full you'll feel just fine And you'll laugh everytime you see that funny face And you cry everytime your diaper's in disgrace Hey baby don't cry about it We love you for you Hey baby there's no doubt about it We love you for you So pretty soon they may be brown or blue And pretty soon you'll be talking too And pretty soon you could sing this song But it would be too babyish before too long Hey baby don't cry about it We love you for you Hey baby there's no doubt about it We love you for you
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