Name: I Believe in Father Xmas by The Foundlings®
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: The Foundlings' version of our favorite holiday song. RIP, Greg Lake.

This is a longtime Christmas favorite. We hope you enjoy hearing it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Copyright KDunckley 2021 
Mercury Rush Publishing

From the album Gaslight Alley https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thefoundlings/gaslight-alley


Lyric video available on YouTube...
https://youtu.be/y0545jM-6sI

This is the leadoff single from out latest album, Gaslight Alley. I was inspired to write it after reminiscing about a road trip up to the Catskills in New York one late summer some years ago. We usually avoided the interstate going up because it was always backed-up so we took a detour along th e Taconic Parkway which is a winding, bucolic motorway that meanders through some beautiful farm country in central New York state. I wanted to capture the feeling of heading up there in August with the breeze cutting across the windshield of a convertible and breathing in the mountain air. 
 Ironically, the band was actually midway through recording our intended sophomore effort after releasing our debut (which were more alternative/hard rock) when I started writing a handful of songs that had a countryesque, Americana flavor which led me to recording them in Nashville in 2021. While in Nashville, I was so inspired by Music City's vibe that I wrote 4 more songs while down there and 2 more when I came back to New York. What started as a side project turned into a full-blown album and two years later, here are the results!

Gaslight Alley

Taconic Shade

Ever have one of those days turn into one of those months then one of those years where everything turned out great?  Didn't think so. Take a chance and avoid the beaten path.

Copyright KDunckley 2021 
Mercury Rush Publishing
Quicksilver Recordings

Rollin' Down Paradise

Ever wonder what would happen if you actually took the advice of some famous country songs regarding vandalism and violence? FAFI...lol

"Next Time"

Ain't Gonna Be A Next Time

Buck Owens meets 80s indie pop?
Copyright K. Dunckley/V. Dunckley 2021
Mercury Rush Publishing
Quicksilver Recordings

Trouble Walkin' Blues

There are traditions and there are innovations and then there's just marketing BS. Take what you like and leave the rest.

Nothing Like a Country Song

Old Irish Drunks - Lyrics

Well he left home one Sligo day and he kept on going until he came to a halt
And they heard nothing of their lost son since London had swallowed him up
Each night he drank himself to sleep in a town where he lived but did not belong
These streets were built by men who came from the earth then covered it up

They built these streets of Cricklewood
They built these streets of Kilburn
They built these streets of Cricklewood
And they built them good
Built them good

Living on the far edge he broke his toes in the High Road cold
His last days he told me how much he loved all he said he hated most

They built these streets of Cricklewood
They built these streets of Kilburn
They built these streets of Cricklewood
And they built them good
Built them good

And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain

Built them good
Built them good
Built them good
Built them good

Strange Part of the Country

Old Irish Drunks

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Time Settles - Lyrics 

And the decision made a hole, a vacancy in a vital inner chamber in my bones
This is what finally separated me from all my friends for whom I became skeletal

Time settles over me
Time settles over me

And then the places I visit became the same inside world that I thought I was in
And like a fly scribbling the air I know neither the place nor what the hour is

Time settles over me
Time settles over me

And I, far off inside, was old

And now the years are closing in, each minute the last minute and following me

Time Settles

Ever been deluged by someone's insincerity? Once you know the crocodile tears are salty because of contempt, you learn to surf the wave into a better situation.

All Your Tears

The Foundlings' version of our favorite holiday song. RIP, Greg Lake.

I Believe In Father Xmas

I Believe in Father Xmas

Novelty folk-pop. My lyrics, music/vocals by Rob L. Copyright 2008 Jay Rich and Rob L. Most medically-specific song ever? Lyrics below:

Lucretia, You're Giving Me A Duodenal Ulcer            

V1:

Lucretia, you're giving me a duodenal ulcer
No amount of medicine can fix
Lucretia, I'm feeling like my gut's about to rupture
Your cuisine and me we just don't mix
Lucretia, I know you're putting something in the cooking
When my back is turned you think that I ain't looking
But Lucretia, oh baby I've got wise to all your tricks
Lucretia, Lucretia

V2:

Lucretia, I think you'd like to see my kidneys fry
And barbecue my liver on the porch
Lucretia, I've never figured out the reasons why
You'd put my vital organs to the torch
Lucretia, I think you're stirring up a witches' brew
Wherever sickness goes it follows you
Lucretia, I ain't just gonna sit back and watch
Lucretia, Lucretia

V3:

Lucretia, I reckon Typhoid Mary is your bosom pal
And Doctor Lecter your dear next of kin
Lucretia, you truly are a one-off kind of gal:
So warped and twisted, firmly steeped in sin
Lucretia, it's time that I put up the barricade
As psycho killers go you leave all rivals in the shade
Lucretia, don't come around again:
You won't get in
Lucretia, Lucretia

*****Break*****

V4:

Lucretia, though you once could boast a saving grace
Now it makes no odds to me
Lucretia, the diabolic soul behind an angel face
Is now exposed for all the world to see
Lucretia, I harbour grave suspicions re your name
With those poisoners it's surely the same:
You're one of the Borgia family
You're a member of the Borgia family
Lucretia, Lucretia, Lucretia...




Lucretia, You're Giving Me A Duodenal Ulcer

The Foundlings are coming-
Thrashing the blues,
Jazzing the folk,
Rocking the country.
American made, internationally forged.
Our eyes and ears are upon you.  Keep yours open as well...

I Believe in Father Xmas

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