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#268-And The Flag Unfurls (2003)
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Written immediately following 'Shock & Awe' over Bagdad. Music slighly influenced by Cobain unplugged.
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 #255
Peak in subgenre #58
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
March 14, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.1 MB 128 kbps 2:16
Story behind the song
Here's some food for thought. Go on the Internet and research the number of people Saddam killed in the decade leading up to the invasion versus the number killed as a result of OUR invasion of Iraq (with and without including the resultant insurgency).
Lyrics
Burnt out bridges Hate in the air Crying streets Shake in despair The son has risen fanged today And the flag unfurls And the flag unfurls To do their jobs So many products they need Tanks and airplanes Children's blood feeds the greed The plan's unveiled It's WE who kill And the flag unfurls And the flag unfurls The last gasps frozen Clutch of breath A thousand lifetimes Robbed by the death The teardrops bounce off the battle dress And the flag unfurls And the flag unfurls Truth is lying pale in the wind The leader is smiling He says "We will win" He won as soon as he made it begin And the flag unfurls And the flag unfurls He won as soon as he made it begin
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