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#292-Hear & Now (2005)
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Garage Rocker in the style of Paul Revere & The Raiders with a simple message of Peace
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
Genre
Rock Garage Rock
Charts
Peak #120
Peak in subgenre #8
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2005
Uploaded
October 03, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 4:04
Story behind the song
Part of my yet to be released Abrasive Flowers CD (all instruments by me)
Lyrics
It's a catchy little thing, yes and how If you really want it bad, you can have it now I just want peace, hear it now I just want love hear and now Don't like war, no kapow Gotta gather and talk in a pow wow So your guru might be Chairman Mao But don't get angry, don't have a cow Don't be so mad mister, I don't know who you are I never drew a bad picture so don't blow up my car Just go away, live and let live Why can't we just learn to forgive? Leaders stealing from your promised land I think that I might understand Don't be so dumb mister, don't belong over here Telling me about freedom while you cause all these tears You say I'm naive but I say your daft You're a sinking man just take my raft Fight fire with water not with cliches Fight fire with fire and we'll all burn today Don't be so dumb leaders, we know who you are You make so much money but can't see very far Everyone is the same Everyone wants to survive Everyone wants to be alive Just the same But when you feel only rage Then you set the stage for this It may seem too late for this But it's not Its a funny little thing yes and how If you want it bad you can have it now I just want peace hear it now I just want love here and now I just want peace I just want love Hear it now Here and Now You gotta gotta say You just want peace here and now Yeh yeh
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