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#256-Where The Eagle Flies (2002)
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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 #180
Peak in subgenre #23
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
December 18, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 6.9 MB 128 kbps 7:34
Story behind the song
This is about the time I was taking a hike with a bunch of people and out of nowhere an eagle appeared in the sky. It is a metaphor of course.
Lyrics
High above the hills near the rolling stream I saw her up above and it was not a dream Eyes gazed toward the sky every head turned round To see her gracefully glide above the crowd She soars into the clouds but does she rise too far Between truth and lies Where the Eagle flies Vocal interlude I’m walking through the green skipping all the way I see her dive and rise and meet another day Following her down to the flowing tide I lose her as the trail goes to either side Chorus possible bridge The mighty bird sweeps down and grabs her prey The good the bad the weak are in her way Claws so fast there’s no time for right and wrong Right makes might, the weak fight to their swan song Feathers white and black and streaked with gold Under freedom’s wings it’s such a heavy hold I stand beside the road but I can not see When I follow her where I’ll finally be She soars into the clouds but does she rise too far Between truth and lies Where the Eagle flies She soars into the clouds but does she rise too far Between truth and lies Where the Eagle flies
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