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#276-In Case You Didn't Know (2004)
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Song for a friend, the melody jumps an octave
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 #280
Peak in subgenre #44
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2003
Uploaded
May 09, 2010
Track Files
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MP3 2.3 MB 128 kbps 2:31
Story behind the song
I wanted to write a song that would challenge my vocal range and be more interesting melodically.
Lyrics
In the corners of my lifetime In the season before the sun You come in and out of sight the travelling one And you may think it's been years Long ago and out of rhyme It's just like 12 hours before A little slice of time Now it may seem strange and far away But to me it's yesterday Time it does stand still and glows In a memory ray Now I say that it don't matter Where you've been or where you go I am your friend for life In case you didn't know As you toil under the moon the nights are long so long You can whistle your own tunes or sing this song Be strong be strong But if the day becomes the darkest night And the swallows cry out loud Your golden dreams are frozen still But the songs live on and on and on In the corners of my lifetime In the season before the sun You come in and out of sight the travelling one
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