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#128- My Buckskin Boy (1991)
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Fingerpicking love song to a ghost--inspired by a ghost tour of New Hope PA. Should be sung by a woman
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 #356
Peak in subgenre #47
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1991
Uploaded
February 10, 2008
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MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:13
Story behind the song
Well this song about a guy who was klled on his motorcycle in 1969 by a drunk driver isn't actually that sad or dark compared to the previous couple songs... just spooky. It was inspired when I took a "ghost tour" of New Hope PA and learned the story of the strange apparition of a man in a buckskin jacket who appears by the side of the road on rainy nights to frighten sober the drunk drivers who led to his demise. I actually wrote this song with the intention of giving it to the popular local duo Amy & Jennie to sing, but ultimately I didn't feel confident it was quite up to the quality of their own material. It clearly is best sung by a woman of course. I still look for this guy when I'm driving late at night in Upper Bucks County PA...you should too. I hear he is sighted once in a while still. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 3.5...Comments included: "I didn’t care for all the repetition of the title line. The chorus felt like a bridge and as a bridge, repeated too often. I wasn’t spooky at all, but that’s ok. It was sweet." "Nice" "You're right about my buckskin boy better as a girls song" "Reminds me of the old folk song She Moves Though The fair"
Lyrics
Three in the morning I thought I saw you My buckskin boy Right near my window guarding my bedroom My buckskin boy I hadn't seen you in a little while My buckskin boy You're still wearing your 60's style My buckskin boy Could it have been so many years since our last night? No I'm not afraid of you Won't run from your sight The last time you were on Route 32 My buckskin boy Those drunken girls in the Subaru My buckskin boy You showed your face in the headlight glare My buckskin boy And you certainly made them scared My buckskin boy Could it have been so many years since our last night? No I'm not afraid of you Won't run from your sight But it was on a cloud filled night You left the party you felt alright You even had your helmet on How could you have known how far you'd be thrown? Could it have been so many years since our last night? No I'm not afraid of you Won't run from your sight So late at night near 263 My buckskin boy You'll meet the drunks leaving their party Yes somewhere out near New Hope way And then you'll vanish into the day My buckskin boy My buckskin boy My buckskin boy
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