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#175- Raw Deal (1997)
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Unusual rhythmic pattern--can you figure out the time signature?
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
Blues Blues General
Charts
Peak #106
Peak in subgenre #54
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
September 01, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.2 MB 128 kbps 5:40
Story behind the song
This bluesy number is about as close as I get to developing a groove and jamming out..at least so far. I had fun playing all the instruments, especially the bass (which I usually play exceptionally poorly). Rather long, but with an unusual rhythmic pattern...can you figure out the time signature? Raw Deal got a 4.0 out of 5.0 from weekly listeners. Comments included: "Good raw singing" "Raw Deal sounded like great fun to do. I thought of a good harmonica lead guitar duel outro if you're interested. " "Picks your smile into his pocket -- great line!!"
Lyrics
The man has given you a raw deal (3x) But you keep on rolling along He sucks the life out of your heart now (3x) But you keep on rolling along Roll along, roll along (2x) Roll along You're so (think you're) strong He picks your smile into his pocket (3x) But he keeps on rolling along Roll along, roll along (2x) Roll along You're so (think you're) strong The man has given you a raw deal (3x) But you keep on rolling along But you keep on rolling along
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