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#177- The Same Dirt Road (1997)
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The original version of the song found on the Men From When CD... just guitar and vocal...
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 #353
Peak in subgenre #76
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
September 07, 2008
Track Files
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MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 4:00
Story behind the song
The Same Dirt Road is based on a true story. This song is found on the CD by Men From When. Go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/menfromwhen to hear a very different version. The CD version has a neat counter-melody and extra lyrics both written by Steve Lessick. It also contains Art Cohen's outstanding Garcia-like electric guitar work This got a 4.0 out of 5.0....Comments included: "A bit dull arrangement but a great song" "I like the cd version much better" "Great lyrics"
Lyrics
We walked out on a hot August day through the bushes, honeysuckles and thorns We walked a while until we found a dirt road we'd never seen before The smell was sweet with flowering plants like candy in the air mixed with perfume A vision of horses appeared in my mind, took me back to another travelor's time Now I wonder who came this way And whose dust we tread upon Ancient travelors from a long gone day We closed our eyes and we walked along The same dirt road, TWe walked out on a hot August day through the bushes, honeysuckles and thorns We walked a while until we found a dirt road we'd never seen before The smell was sweet with flowering plants like candy in the air mixed with perfume A vision of horses appeared in my mind, took me back to another travelor's time Now I wonder who came this way And whose dust we tread upon Ancient travelors from a long gone day We closed our eyes and we walked along The same dirt road, have you seen them? The same dirt road, they were just like us The same dirt road, hear the sound of the piper/danicng down the road Calling us home The grass was high around the bend , there was a meadow near a fresh water spring We cupped our hands and as clear as ice, we drank the water and heard the travelor sing I thought for a moment I saw in my eyes a horse and carriage racing in the breeze Then I blinked and away it was gone and I knew that I too would be travelling on Now I wonder who came this way and whose dust we tread upon Ancient travelors from long gone days We close our eyes and we walk along he same dirt road, they were just like us The same dirt road, hear the sound of the piper/dancng down the road Calling us home The grass was high around the bend , there was a meadow near a fresh water spring We cupped our hands and as clear as ice, we drank the water and heard the travelor sing I thought for a moment I saw in my eyes a horse and carriage racing in the breeze Then I blinked and away it was gone and I knew that I too would be travelling on Now I wonder who came this way and whose dust we tread upon Ancient travelors from long gone days We close our eyes and we walk along ...additonal chorus lyrics and melody by Steve Lessick (not on this solo recording)
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