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#87- The Lonely Pumpkin (1988)
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A Holloween Story about a pumpkin that wants to be a jack-o-lantern
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 #314
Peak in subgenre #52
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1988
Uploaded
September 09, 2007
Track Files
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MP3 2.7 MB 128 kbps 2:55
Story behind the song
I once thought this little story song could possibly make a good short children's picture book. Any illustrators willing to work for free? Any children's book publishers out there? Old Bill the pumpkin would be happy to hear he was popular. Mp3 Club listeners gave the song an average rating of 4.4 out of 5... Comments included: "I LOVE it" "Clever idea" "Cute one" "Don't see this as a children's song for children.... This is a children's song for adults.....Sometimes you gotta' glow inside...Sometimes you gotta spill your guts....Sometimes ya gotta take your cuts....A pumpkin on a window sill is a very good line........Could mean a million things to different people..... I could hear this one being done by Peter Paul and Mary with a few lyrical changes" "I have sent this to my daughter to play for my grand daughter" "It has great potential"
Lyrics
Once upon a time in pumpkin patch There was a little ole pumpkin That no one would snatch His name was Billy Some people called him Bill But he wanted to be Jack O' Lantern on your window sill Now it may seem silly To want to be on a window sill But this Billy William or Bill Had had his fill So William went to his friend the squash Jimmy Butternut-a butternut by gosh He said "Bill don't you worry, don't feel fright" You'll be a Jack O'lantern by Holloween night Now it may seem silly To want to be on a window sill But this Billy William or Bill Had had his fill Sometimes you just gotta let your insides out Sometimes you just want to glow inside Sometimes you feel like you got to unrind Sometimes you feel like a lonely pumpkin Now the very next day a little girl the name of Ann Marie Found Bill the pumpkin and set him free She took him home, put crayon on his skin And then his daddy--he took the knife to him Now it may seem silly To want to be on a window sill But this Billy William or Bill Had had his fill Sometimes you just gotta let your insides out Sometimes you just want to glow inside Sometimes you feel like you're going to pie Sometimes you feel like a lonely pumpkin
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