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#213-Father Abraham (2000)
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This song celebrates Abraham Lincoln
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 #104
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2000
Uploaded
March 22, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:28
Story behind the song
The recent bicentennial of Lincoln's birth is over, but here's a song written in 2000 that celebrates his lfe and legacy. It also addresses the historical revisionism with a very common sense approach. It's a simple song but has one of the best build-ups as far as an arrangements I've done thus far.
Lyrics
The year was 1858 and everyone was talking ‘bout the great debate The tall thin man he told us straight that right was right and wrong was wrong CHORUS Father Abraham The Greatest man who ever led this land He still stands tall with his hat in his hand Father Abraham The year was 1861 he had to sneak to his inauguration There were threats to kill him and there were guns cause he was gonna stand his ground Chorus In 1800 and 63 he wrote those words and set a people free No matter why you can’t deny that he was prepared to die (alt: Said it was for soldiers to do it legally, but it was what he always believed/but it was for eternity) Chorus In the Spring of 1865 mean Mr. Booth he snuck had hate inside One little bullet and he took the life of a kind and gentle man Chorus Here in the 21st century its easy to second guess history Don’t just read his words but know his deeds and you’ll sing along with me
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