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#185-Things You Said That Day (1997)
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For John Lennon- go to cdbaby.com/menfromwhen for ultimate version
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 #408
Peak in subgenre #64
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
October 12, 2008
Track Files
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MP3 2.4 MB 128 kbps 2:35
Story behind the song
I wrote a song for John Lennon the night he died and I also wrote this one 17 years later. It was supposed to sound a bit like the early Beatles song, Things We Said That Day. Another version of this song can be found on Men From When's cd-- About Time. Here are what some are saying about this CD: "The Men From When CD is superlative. It is very interesting because the first song Jenny McDowell in my opinion is so different from the rest. Queen Of The Sun and Mr. Smith are my two favorites. The entire album flows really well...." - Craig Fenton, author of "Take Me to a Circus Tent - The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual" "Jenny McDowell sounds a lot like the power pop bands on the Perfect Pop and That's Perfect Wonderball labels used to sound like. A strong melody and with the emphasis on power .… then pure bliss in the form of The Same Dirt Road, a beautiful song which reminds me of a lost Men & Volts track, excluding the mini-synthesizer-solo. Men From When can be compared to M&V in other aspects too, rock songs rooted in the pre-prog rock era and the "sing with the voice you have"-attitude I really like; vocal harmonies et al..." L-Cafe e-zine Mp3 club listeners gave this a 3.5 out of 5...comments included: "I liked the cd version much better"
Lyrics
You were alive You had it made Your thoughts were known by millions The things you said that day World in your hands You threw it away You stuck to what you believed in The things you said that day Just when the tears have gone They come again It's been so many years But I remember when You were alive You had it made Your thoughts were known by millions The things you said that day Cried many years before And I still hurt today Did not know me at all But I still feel this way You are alive You're here today Your thoughts are known by millions The things you said that day The things you said that day The things you said that day
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