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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of tribute songs written in memory of someone.

The goal is to take the prompt and profile a song that has it part of its lyrics or title.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Rules for Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Down On The Farm

My choice is about a girl named Linda Lou who left the farm life to go “work in a saloon from midnight to noon”. Litttle Feat on their seventh studio album called “Down on The Farm” is where my choice can be located. This song clearly is written in tribute to Linda Lou who has left her boyfriend and apparently never coming back. She just leaves him with memories.

This album closes out the Lowell George era for the band as he passed on shortly after this came out. Excellent and hilarious cover art was part of this disc released in 1979 and the title track, aptly named “Down on The Farm” is what I am profiling.

Many people in the 1970’s were drawn to Little Feat not only for their fusion of New Orleans Jazz, the blues, and God knows whatever other genre they blended together. Yet their album covers also were acclaimed. They all were drawn by Neon Park.

Starting in 1972 Park would design all of Little Feat’s next albums, kicking off with ‘Dixie Chicken’ (1973), followed by ‘Feats Don’t Fail Me Now’ (1974), ‘The Last Record Album’ (1975), ‘Time Loves a Hero’ (1977), ‘Waiting for Columbus’ (1978), ‘Down on the Farm’ (1979), ‘Hoy-Hoy!’ (1981), ‘Let It Roll’ (1988), ‘Representing the Mambo’ (1990) and ‘Shake Me Up’ (1991). Of all these, his cover for ‘Waiting for Columbus’ is probably his best known.

Lyrics

Paul Barrere wrote the song. He was part of Little Feat and is the lead singer on this tune.

Linda Lou apparently never came back to the farm, but this song honors her memory. The video transitions to another “Little Feat” called the Candy Man

Next week the prompt will be songs featured in films that made the charts.