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#164- For Edgar (1997)
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For Mr. Poe
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 #496
Peak in subgenre #81
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
July 20, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 4:03
Story behind the song
Edgar Alan Poe was one of the greatest writers. He practically invented two major genres of literature, the horror story and the mystery. My lyrical sensibility is sometimes aligned with him, certainly more than any other writer of prose. My weekly e-mail listeners rated this a 4.0 out of 5. Comments included: "couldn't help thinking of Dan Fogelberg...dark and ominous" "I loved Edgar too" "Pretty strong song" "I know you can sing this better than this version"
Lyrics
The raven pecks on the old gravestone He will not go or leave it alone He sits atop and caws so proud Late at night he'll draw a crowd In the old graveyard the black cat cries She sings a song by the same graveside The limping mutt he howls so blue You know the song from his heart is true In the old boneyard most every night The sound is such to stir one's fright Yet there's musicality Tintinabular harmony The churchyard bell rings on the hour Over conquering worms glows an evening star On that gravestone in Baltimore Is the name of the one who wrote "For Lenore" In the old boneyard most every night The sound is such to stir one's fright Yet there's musicality Tintinabular harmony Do you know who lies 'neath the old gravestone? Is he the one who had lost his home? Is he the one whose love had died? Is he the poet of the night? He is the poet of the night
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