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#100-Fine Day (1989)
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One of my few message songs with a happy message. A positive song about Philly.
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
World Reggae
Charts
Peak #156
Peak in subgenre #25
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1989
Uploaded
October 22, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:19
Story behind the song
This one is kind of calypso/reggae acoustic. The official version is on the Lessick & Lincoln CD and has Steve Lessick singing lead. Although this arrangement is pretty similar, it sounds quite different as I need to sing an entire octave lower than Steve. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 4.1 out of 5.0. Comments included: "I think that this is a top quality song.... I am also hearing a choir on the refrain. The choir would begin after the reggae bass played for a whole verse. You could also do say three voices on the refrain and save the choir until the outtro." "Fun song" Playful lyrics" "Keep on putting out optimistic songs" "This song holds up real well for a 20 year old song"
Lyrics
See Raphael walking down the way A fine day fine day Nothing not even a smile to say A fine day fine day Walking past the boarded up store A fine day fine day It don't matter what's in store A fine day fine day See Tamika with her jump rope now A fine day fine day Jumping from morning to evening-- wow A fine day fine day City streets are hot outside A fine day fine day Take the SEPTA bus for a ride A fine day fine day Raphael's never been to this neghborhood In Philadelphia Thinks them kids may not be too good In Philadelphia He knows he's not walking where he should But he goes past very few angry eyes And very much to his surprise He sees Tamika she sure looks nice He gives Tamika his lemon ice Raphael's never been to this neghborhood In Philadelphia Thinks them kids may not be too good In Philadelphia He knows he's not walking where he should Now they're walking down the sunny streets together Fine day fine day Thought he was in for some nasty weather Fine day fine day But not every day's an angry day Fine Day, fine day Most people really they are ok Fine day fine day yes not everyday's an angry day Most people really they are ok Epilogue (on CD only) Raphael and tamika the very next day They'll be seeing the matinee
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