What Am I Gonna Do

I enjoyed a trip to Colorado back in the late 80s. Visiting my brother and just taking in the countryside. Central City, Colorado was a great place away from it all. Think that's where you would fine the "lost gold mine". Great place back then. Can't begin to imagine what it was back in the day. https://www.colorado.gov/centralcity
Maybe some movie with Henry Fonda or John Wayne would give a little look.   

One of the interesting things I found there was a cemetery. The Knights of Pythias cemetery. http://www.pythias.org/

But back to the song. This is number 46 of one a week for 2015. 

           What Am I gonna do              

Copyr.1995

words and music

johnny blodgett

I thought I was free as the wind,

Nothing could ever hold me.

Then you came along like the words of a song,

Like wave after wave of the sea.

                   (refrain)

What am I gonna do babe,

What am I gonna do....

I'm so much in love with you Babe,

So much in love with you.

I stood on the top of the mountain,

Sipped of the worlds vintage wine.

Like a book that was open and page after page,

All of life's pleasures were mine.

(refrain)

I was happy to stand all alone,

There was nothing that I couldn't do.

The road rose to meet me, the wind couldn't beat me.

But what will it be without you.

(refrain)

Come with me and stand by my side.

Let's meet each new day you and I.

There's a rainbow in heaven as this time is given.

Here's my hand.  take wings.  Let's fly

(refrain)

Fore I Die

This is number 45 on the JB hit parade. Ha ha! Sure hope you like this song. It is one of the first songs I ever wrote.  I am running a little behind. I promised one a week and only have 45 songs on here at present. You can sort back through this blog from the first of the year to find the songs you like best. So, I need to post seven more songs before the end of the year. It's just a matter of sitting down and doing a little practice and playing. 

My main theme is still to get some songs out there and possibly have some artist or producer pick up on it and find one or more that they could use. The songs are all copyrighted but I would be happy to share if you see something worth producing. 

Please enjoy "Fore I Die".

"FORE I DIE"

copyright 1995

Johnny Blodgett

Every time I hear the groanin of a diesel train,

or listen to the whinin of a jet airplane,

or watch all those people go travelin by,

I want to go where they're goin'

I want to see what they're seein'

I want to do what they're doin'

Fore I die

Like a train that has no wheels to roll

Like a miner when there is no more coal

Like a bird without the wings to fly

I could cry, Lord I could cry

Every time I see a picture in a magazine

Of some far off place, where I've never been

I fold up the picture and I want to cry

I want to go where they're goin'

I want to see what they're seein'

I want to do what they're doin'

Fore I die

Come Back To Daddy

There was a beauty that I knew and loved 20+ years ago. I dedicate this one to her.

I wrote a few songs for this beauty.

 "COME BACK TO YOUR DADDY"

Copyr.
1994 J. Blodgett

All
rights reserved

Johnny Blodgett
Composer

           

WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, AND SAW YOU WERE
GONE,

IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO REGRET WHAT I'D DONE.

I'M NOT OFFERING EXCUSES OR REASONS AT ALL,

I'M BEGGING YOU DARLIN, I'LL EVEN CRAWL.

COME BACK TO YOUR DADDY, I PROMISE I'LL BE

THE SWEET SUGAR DADDY, THAT YOU WANT ME TO BE.

I WON'T EVER LEAVE YOU AND I'LL ALWAYS BE TRUE,

JUST GIVE ME ONE CHANCE TO PROVE IT TO YOU.

                                                                                                                                              

I WASN'T MYSELF, WHEN YOU SAW ME LAST NIGHT.

BABY I KNOW I WAS WRONG, YOU WERE SO RIGHT.

YOU SAID I'D BE SORRY FOR TREATING YOU BAD,

GOD KNOWS I'M SORRY, YOU'RE THE BEST THING I EVER
HAD.

                                                                                                                                              

COME BACK TO YOUR DADDY, I PROMISE I'LL BE

THE SWEET SUGAR DADDY, THAT YOU WANT ME TO BE.

I WON'T EVER LEAVE YOU AND I'LL ALWAYS BE TRUE,

JUST GIVE ME ONE CHANCE TO PROVE IT TO YOU.

                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                              

OH BABY FORGIVE ME, LET'S TRY IT AGAIN,                               

I PROMISE I'LL BE A BETTER LOVER AND FRIEND.

I'LL GIVE UP MY DRINKIN AND PLAYIN AROUND,                                               

NO MORE RUNNIN ALL OVER TOWN.

                                                                                                                                              

COME BACK TO YOUR DADDY, I PROMISE I'LL BE

THE SWEET SUGAR DADDY, THAT YOU WANT ME TO BE.

I WON'T EVER LEAVE YOU AND I'LL ALWAYS BE TRUE,

JUST GIVE ME ONE CHANCE TO PROVE IT TO YOU.

                                                                                                                                              

I'M SORRY SWEET DARLING, PLEASE DON'T STAY
AWAY,                  

COME BACK TO YOUR DADDY, HE'S SO SORRY TODAY.

TAKE ME BACK IN YOUR ARMS, I'M DOWN ON MY KNEES,                             

WITH MY HEART IN MY HANDS, I'M BEGGING YOU PLEASE.

COME BACK TO YOUR DADDY, I PROMISE I'LL BE

THE SWEET SUGAR DADDY, THAT YOU WANT ME TO BE.

I WON'T EVER LEAVE YOU AND I'LL ALWAYS BE TRUE,

JUST GIVE ME ONE CHANCE TO PROVE IT TO YOU.

Back Tonight

This song is by my son Jason. Glad to present this. I really enjoy hearing my kids sing. A beautiful clear voice and clean guitar picking. I am sure you will enjoy it.

The seasons come the seasons go.

 

A good friend made this fall wreath for me. I like how it goes with what's left of the summer flowers. 

Autumn has arrived and I am reminded of a song Johnny Cash sang on an old album "Now There Was A Song". The song was "The Seasons Of My Heart". Sometimes I have to think about what influenced the songs I have written and Johnny Cash is at the top of a list that includes writers like Merle Haggard, Gene Autrey, Chuck Berry, George Jones, Doc Watson and a host of others dating from way back and into the seventies and eighties. Today's music doesn't work well for me except for an occasional throwback sound. I enjoy basic. A simple and pretty melody and a good lyric. I am turned off by a lot of noise and driven arpeggio guitar or keyboard. Sometimes it just sounds like someone practicing. Then you have someone like B. B. King, who played pretty much one note at a time.

I have a few songs that I hope to put on here before the end of the year.

Here are some titles that are on my mind.

DON'T YOU WANT TO BE MY BABY                                       

COME BACK TO DADDY                                                            

DON'T BE WAITING FOR ME                                        

DOWN BELOW                                                                              

E.T. AND GRAPEFRUIT                                                               

WHAT AM I GONNA DO                                                             

YOU'VE GOT ME DREAMIN                                                      

I REMEMBER YOU                                                                       

YOU'RE ALL THAT MATTERS                                                  

HOLD ON THERE WOMAN                                                        

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME                                                    

DON'T BE WAITING FOR ME                                                    

FORE I DIE                                                                                     

LOOK UP,  THY REDEMPTION DRAWETH NYE                              

LEAD THEM HOME                                                                     

I WANT TO BE YOURS  

VICTORIA JANE                                                              

"Laura"

This is a little instrumental that I worked out a few years ago.  I am not counting this as one of the "One a week songs for 2015". I just wanted to put it on here. Hope you enjoy it. I call it "Laura". I am not sure why I called it Laura but that's what I called it I hope you like it.

"Takin' it easy takin' it slow"

I was driving a 1985 Chevy C10 pick-up truck and pulling a 23 foot RV camper in about 1988. I was going through a divorce at the time I wrote this song and was just kicking around and trying to find a little peace and a place where I could feel some kind of normal. A long time friend was living down in Merritt Island, Florida and I had traveled down here for a few days to visit with Pam and her family. In my mind’s ear, I can still hear the sound of the skimmer on their swimming pool as I penned and played this song.

It seems so very coincidental to me this morning that in the list of songs I am doing for this year it is actually listed as number 43 and I am producing it as number 43 on the blog. Further, as I am visiting my brother whose house in Merritt Island is only about 5 blocks away from that porch enclosure where this song was written.

In the great scheme of things and God’s plan it just gives me pause. Many things have changed in these past 25 years, but then again, many things haven’t.

                   Takin it easy -takin it slow                                                                            43.

                                                                                                Copyr.1994

                                                                                                Johnny Blood Composer

                                                                                                John Blood Music Co.

Leavin all my cares behind me,

Doesn't matter where I go.

No more lost and no more lonely,

Takin it easy, takin it slow.

                       

                        (Refrain)

Let me feel the wind and rain,

Feel the sunshine on my face.

I'll take the good and stand the pain.

The chips can fall and find their place.

Half my life I've spent in givin,

That's ok I hope you know,

The other half I'll spend in livin,

You'll find me where the four winds blow.

                        (Instrumental)

Just me and old "Bo", good old pup.

driftin down life's lonesome road.

I'll take it all, I'll fill my cup.

I'll pay my share, each penny owed.

                        (Refrain)

Let my attitude be whatever,

You be you and me be me,

I won't say "I want forever",

Whatever comes, just let it be.

Lovely place this, Merritt Island, FL