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#176- It Came Out Of The Earth (1997)
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Sloppy musical sketch of a rock tune about a National Enquirer article
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 #219
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
September 07, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.4 MB 128 kbps 2:39
Story behind the song
I was trying during this time to write a batch of rock tunes. I had a John Fogarty/Creedence style in mind. It ended up sounding more like the B-52s. The lyrics are semi-intentionally incoherent. The story is like a confused dream. Weekly listeners gave it 3.8 out of 5.0. Comments included: "I like it. It does have a Rock Lobster vibe to it. It’s fun and catchy." "Goofy but fun" "..kinda 80's, not your usual feel"
Lyrics
I saw it in Washington DC I saw it by the White House I saw it rise from the sidewalk With steam and smoke and stuff They were flashing pointy white teeth There was hissing white, blue and red smoke It made a noise like a marching band The creatures looked a lot like normal folk It came out of the Earth (3x) I saw The creatures poked me with thin fingers Everyone had bright green thumbs I didn't really want to linger But it looked like they were having fun Their leader seemed very old And he dressed in a suit and tie He told me he had to go now Cause the night was growing cold so cold It came out of the Earth (3x) I swear The creatures bid me goodbye now Told me to tell my friends back home That hell is not so bad at all And remember "When in Rome" So tell me how much you'll give me Pay me more I'll verify it's true I think I'll settle for 500 You know one of them sure looked like you It came out of the Earth (3x) I swear
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