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#206-Ghostly Girl (2000)
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Spooky pop rock
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 #85
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2000
Uploaded
February 01, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:49
Story behind the song
I wrote an earlier song found on this site about a relationship between a dead male ghost and his still living girlfriend. This one is kind of reversed but a very different sounding song. It's one of 28 songs written in 72 hours back 9 years ago.
Lyrics
Ghostly Girl In the misty night I find it hard to sleep I see a strange blue light Rising at my feet I see you floating up in front of me They said you died in 1833 I see you pulling back your raven hair And then you vanish right into the air I say Hey little ghostly girl 2X A frightening chill I feel it head to toe Please come with me you say I say I do not want to go I see you coming through the shadow light Your face is moonlit in a snowdrift night Never knew someone so underground Now I’m wondering why you’re still around Hey little ghostly girl (2x) Bridge Come on back don’t be shy Just because you’re on the fly Didn’t mean to scare you dear Aren’t I the one who should feel fear? Soon a pretty dress Just a bit dusty Then your face appears You look right at me You tell me you once dated Aaron Burr And he bought you an expensive fur You wear it when you feel so dead inside You whisper that I make you feel alive Hey little ghostly girl (2x)
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