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#95-Purple Shoes (1989)
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A warped children's song with a subtle vegetarian message (and some fart sounds)
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 #392
Peak in subgenre #41
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
October 07, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:16
Story behind the song
This selection, called Purple Shoes, is a somewhat warped children's song with fart sounds and cows that climb trees. I rewrote two of the verses and I think the song is a bit more entertaining now...(for 6 year olds at least.) Mp3 Listeners gave this a 4.0 out of 5.0... Comments included: "Cute" "Childish but children may like it" "Good sing a long" "Good chorus" "Got to test this one out on my 6 year old"
Lyrics
I've got purple shoes Purple shoes I've got I've got purple shoes And you have not I've got purple shoes Purple shoes I've got I've got purple shoes And you have not Came from a purple cow She was named Matilda They wanted her purple skin And so they killed her I've got purple shoes Purple shoes I've got I've got purple shoes And you have not Matilda had a purple calf Named Elwood F. Squigmartin He ate beans for lunch and dinner So he was always full of gas I've got purple shoes Purple shoes I've got I've got purple shoes And you have not Matilda had a fat cow friend Who liked to climb up trees When she got up to the top She thought she was a little kitty (Moo eow) I've got purple shoes Purple shoes I've got I've got purple shoes And you have not Now the kitty cow friend of my shoe The one who was so fat Her christened name was Gertrude But she was known as President Taft I've got purple shoes Purple shoes I've got I've got purple shoes And you have not Now I don't wear no purple shoes From no purple cow For each step that I take with them I hear that cow say "Ow!" I've got purple shoes Purple shoes I've got I've got purple shoes And you have not
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