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#188- Lock My Blues Away (1997)
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Mandolin and voice-- a happy tune
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 #301
Peak in subgenre #33
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
October 25, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.7 MB 128 kbps 2:54
Story behind the song
I had an old song I could only remember part of so I rewrote it on mandolin Mp3 listeners rated this a 3.4 overall (out of 5) Comments included: "Great melody" "One of the few boring songs you've written" "I like the mandolin but the song is too simple" "catchy"
Lyrics
Lock My Blues Away I can see though a sapphire sky above I can dive into azure clear as love It’s so sunny outside I can reach to the sky It’s much better than gray So I’ll just lock my blues away I can cry but it’s better just to laugh I can try to take the joyful path It may be rainy inside But it’s not where I belong I want to go for a ride And sing a happy song Gonna lock my blues away Lock my blues away inside the ground Bury it don’t let it make a sound Cover it in a silent shroud Keep it soft and sing out loud Gonna lock my blues away
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