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#178- Music, Love & Rhyme (1997)
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A rather literal almost prose lyric rubutting the recent revisonism of the 1960's set to nice 60-ish melody
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 #989
Peak in subgenre #55
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
September 14, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.6 MB 128 kbps 2:51
Story behind the song
I get sick of hearing how the 60's were a time of chaos and unrest and I get even sicker of the right wing media belittling the gains, making fun of the hippies and insulting the peace movement. Where were these media folks and Republican politicians back then? Certainly not supporting civil rights or trying to end a war that killed over a million people. Today more Americans than ever before accept killing innocent people in the name of national security, these people are expendable as long as they are not American, and not unborn...and most importantly as long as the media does not show it on tv. (See the Green Jar). Today is a much more violent time than the 1960's. Violence is accepted both home and abroad. This song however is a lot more sentimental than political. Weekly listeners gave this a 3.2 out of 4.0...Comments included: "I liked the 60's too...sometimes I wish my kids could have experienced growing up then" "Nice melody, nice sentiment, so-so song"
Lyrics
I remember the purple haze I remember the black light faze I remember the days when I loved the times I remember the songful tunes I remember the race to the moon I remember the days when I loved the times And they say it was a violent time Full of divisiveness and lies But growing up then I know that's just their line It's the golden age of music, love and rhyme I've not forgotten the bullets shot Not forgotton the summers hot Not forgotten the tears and blood that flowed But listen to the music of those years It's not full of violence, bravado or fear It was the sound of the spirit of mankind And they say it was a violent time Full of divisiveness and lies But growing up then I know that's just their line It's the golden age of music, love and rhyme So the sixties aren't dead my friend It's locked in your jeans and still in your head It tore up the past and rebuilt it for all time It didn't fail it's being felt In music, fashion, art and health It's really here still and I love those times And they say it was a violent time Full of divisiveness and lies But growing up then I know that's just their line It's the golden age of music, love and rhyme It's the golden age of music, love and rhyme
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