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#151-Frog and Toad (1994)Live Lessick&Lincoln
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Hoppity rhythmic fairy tale inspired by 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. Live L&L at Borders
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 #301
Peak in subgenre #51
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1994
Uploaded
May 11, 2008
Track Files
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MP3 4.4 MB 128 kbps 4:49
Story behind the song
This song was performed only once (and this a recording from that perfomance) It was a reaction to Newt Gingrich's Contract With America. (But that's somewhat irrelevent as it doesn't quite fit Newt, who is not particularly unsavory though I nearly always disagree with him. It can be taken as a more general commentary on Washington politics, however) Note the frog-like rhythm. It's a semi-allegory, in that it isn't to be taken literally nor is every line a clear allegory, so it is kind of a slimy fairy tale. Certain lines on this song foreshadow some of my later more abstract material. This Lessick & Lincoln recording is from a 1995 show at Borders. Mp3 Club listerns gave this a 3.0 out of 5.0 thus far...Comments included: "Jumpy like a frog" "I’m not into political comment songs. It’s very repetitious and image is disturbing (i.e. slimy)."
Lyrics
There once was a frog Slippery old frog There once was a frog Slimy old frog He sat in a pond Scummy old pond He sat in a pond With his uniform on He grew some green hair Mangy old hair He grew some green hair And sat in the pond He ate a shoo fly Tasty shoo fly He ate a shoo fly With hair in the pond Now he's ready for a change of scene He's going to Washington to make himself clean By the side of the road A crooked old road By the side of the road he meets the young toad Gonna make it a team An amphibian dream Scum hair pie shoo way down the road Now he's ready for a change of scene He's going to Washington to make himself clean Sell their legs for a buck Ride in the bandwagon truck Hairy legs buck pie fly down the green road Mr. Toad takes the cash And he buys corned beef hash Mr. Frog, Mr. Toad eat their legs a la mode Now their ready for a change of scene They're going to Washington to make themselves clean With their toes in the cream The four eyes they gleam Foot in mouth they foam While they quote "when in Rome" Stump a frog on a hill Mr. Toad selling pills They croak for some years Till they triumph their wills Now their ready for a change of scene They're going to Washington to make themselves clean There once was a frog Slippery old frog There once was a frog Slippery old frog Slippery old frog Slippery old frog
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