ConradAskland.net » Sheet Music http://conradaskland.net/blog Free Audio and Sheet Music Downloads Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:11:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Do Me Right http://conradaskland.net/blog/2010/05/do-me-right/ http://conradaskland.net/blog/2010/05/do-me-right/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 20:39:49 +0000 admin http://conradaskland.net/blog/?p=40
  • Title: Do Me Right
  • Writer: Conrad Askland
  • Vocalist: Conrad Askland
  • Released: 1994
  • Album: New Faces ’95
  • Label: Road Records
  • Copyright: c 1994 Conrad Askland
  • Style: Country, Ballad, Vocal, Southern Rock

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    LYRICS – DO ME RIGHT

    I come from the poor side of town
    Tooth Fairy she never come around
    I don’t know but I’ve been told
    Stay here long and you just grow old

    But someday soon I’m gonna pack my bags
    Start brand new, See you later Jack
    See I’ve got a friend just across the tracks
    She’s gonna help me get there and back

    CHORUS
    Just do me right, do me right
    Baby, come on just a do me right
    I’ll help you along, won’t do you wrong
    Baby, baby just do me right

    I can’t relive yesterday
    Tomorrow may not come my way
    I’ve spent just one too many years
    Cryin’ just one too many tears

    I used to believe in chariot skies
    But calvary don’t come in my size
    I’ve got a friend I’ve been thinkin’ ‘bout
    She specializes in the down and out

    CHORUS

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    I wrote this in early 1994 in Tongduchon, South Korea. I was playing in a Southern Rock band on a 3 month tour of military bases up by the DMZ. For one month the band stayed off-base and across the railroad tracks from the little party area where the soldiers would go off base.

    After our gigs we would meet up late at night with the Tongduchon party crowd, who would go across those railroad tracks to forget about home for a little while; and to forget that if North Korea were to attack they would be mulled over in a matter of minutes…

    This song is about the juice girls and comfort girls across those railroad tracks.

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  • Title: Song For My Father
  • Writer: Conrad Askland
  • Vocalist: Conrad Askland
  • Released: 1994
  • Album: New Faces ’95
  • Label: Road Records
  • Copyright: c 1994 Conrad Askland
  • Style: Country, Surf, Rock, Vocal

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    LYRICS – SONG FOR MY FATHER


    I’ll tell you what life’s about
    Back in 1980 Daddy owned the South
    I went to Europe and private school
    Daddy said “I’ll always take a care of you”

    Sent Momma roses Valentine’s Day
    Two days later took his jet and flew away
    Went down South blew his money on a whore
    Now me and Momma we’re a dirt down poor

    Chorus
    Well let me play you a melody ‘n sing you a song
    Try to show everybody life ain’t wrong
    Do my best, you know I would, but I can’t save everybody
    Wish I could

    Daddy made money the old fashioned way
    Laundered twenty grand a day by Biscayne Bay
    IRS came, partners died
    Daddy he got set up good to do some time

    All his friends disappeared
    But m’ Daddy got paroled within a year
    “Son, can you help your Father please?
    I got some business for you in the Florida Keys.”

    Chorus

    Solos

    I worked for Daddy ‘bout a year
    Twenty grand a month sniffin’ coconut air
    I found out what life’s about
    Daddy he was givin’ Cuban Neckties out

    If you drink vodka straight
    Never start confessing names and giving dates
    Daddy choked on Smirnoff and Lime
    Daddy he will never screw me one more time

    Chorus
    I couldn’t save Daddy
    But I wish I could

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  • Title: Ballad of Dull Knife
  • Writer: Conrad Askland
  • Vocalist: Mark Marino
  • Released: 1994
  • Album: New Faces ’95
  • Label: Road Records
  • Copyright: c 1994 Conrad Askland
  • Style: Folk, Ballad, Bluegrass, Native American

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    LYRICS – BALLAD OF DULL KNIFE

    I have no particular place to go
    Yet in bondage wherever I roam
    I’m a poor man escaping the bitter cold
    Yet this is where I call home

    CHORUS
    Promise me please that you’ll lay me back home
    If it’s there at the end of my life
    When they pick up my pieces all scarred and torn
    They will see Life used a dull knife

    I harbor no bitter consequence
    Of any events in my life
    But my future doubts grow more intense
    While my nation’s cut with a knife

    CHORUS

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    In 1992 I was playing with a country band at the Museum Club in Flagstaff, Arizona. Near the bar was an Indian Reservation and I got to be friends with some of the local Native Americans. They suggested I read “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”, which I did.

    The song was meant to describe the pain of endless wandering to find home, when the person knows their home is forever gone and they will never reach it.

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  • Title: Can’t Win For Losin’
  • Writer: Conrad Askland
  • Vocalist: Chris Maher
  • Released: 1994
  • Album: New Faces ’95
  • Label: Road Records
  • c 1994 Conrad Askland
  • Style: Blues, Country, Vocal

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    LYRICS – CAN’T WIN FOR LOSIN’

    If this had been a real life
    I would have been told what to do
    And if it’s just a test
    Why do I feel like such a fool?

    Well the only thing that I’ve learned
    Is that I don’t know everything
    The only thing I know for sure
    Is I don’t have much room to complain

    CHORUS
    Well they tell me to look on the bright
    And wait for what is meant to be
    But if it’s all the same
    When you can’t win for losin’
    You don’t even want to play the game

    BRIDGE
    Now why won’t you tell me
    Why I got to be more than just a man?
    And tell me why I got to smile
    When happy is the last thing that I am

    CHORUS

    When you can’t win for losin’
    You just don’t even want to play the game

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    I wrote this song in early 1994 while spending 3 months playing along the DMZ in South Korea with a band called the “Hardriders”. We did mainly Southern Rock music at military bases in South Korea to entertain the troops and officers.

    It was a tense time in South Korea with constant threats of attack from North Korea. The band and I were shuffling every night to new locations to setup for the night’s performance on different bases. I was really exhausted  and felt like I wasn’t utilizing my talents to the best of my ability.

    So “Can’t Win For Losin’” was an expression of that time and the feeling that no matter what you try to do, nothing seems to work out.

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