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#200- Earl & Billy (2000)
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Sad song with a tad of Townes Van Zandt influence
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 #320
Peak in subgenre #59
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2000
Uploaded
January 04, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.5 MB 160 kbps 3:02
Story behind the song
I have always been intrigued by the song where something was thrown off the Chattahatchie Bridge as the lyric leads to numerous interpretations within a simple concrete narrative. I tried to do the same here with much more brevity and much less success, though the third verse is open to interpretation. As for the melody, I think I copped a small segment of the melodic line from my old friend Rob Trego who wrote a song that has long been lost to the ages. It's only a small section of the song but I want to give credit where credit is due. Check comments out at www.songramp.com/RobLincoln
Lyrics
Earl came from Kansas with a nickel to his name Walked the streets of Newark in 1968 Saw Billy coming and he prayed Oh Lord let me walk away Spent 10 years in the upstate penitentiary Had a nice warm bed but no color TV And every night we heard him pray Oh Lord let me walk away Strap around his arms in the late 70’s He felt the needle and thought that he was free Till he saw Billy’s face and heard him pray Oh Lord let me walk away Oh Lord let me walk away
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