2025 Competition Entry:

Me And My Harley by Marvin Conan

Genre

Country

Artist

Website

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Vocals – Debi Champion
Producer – Steve Cooper

Description

The joy, exhilaration and sense of freedom one gets on a motorcycle.
The song is actually more Americana than country, but given the choice of categories, It comes closest to country.

Bio

A Brooklynite by birth, I’ve been involved with music my entire life. I began taking piano lessons when I was 5 years old and as a 9 year old, had a scholarship to study classical piano at the prestigious Chatham Square Music School. As a teenager, I listened to all kinds of music – jazz, folk, classical, top 40, American songbook etc. I taught myself folk guitar, took flute lessons and played in my high school and college orchestras. I occasionally wrote a song, and a few of my songs came to the attention of the legendary music publisher Al Gallico, who, after after listening to them, asked me to come work for him. At the time, music was a fun avocation, and I had no thoughts about being a professional songwriter. Throughout my life I would occasionally write songs, but it was only as I neared retirement from federal service that I began to write more regularly and take my writing more seriously. I had a few country songs released on Pharaoh International Records that got a fair amount of airplay in Europe. A song called “Too Soon”, written in remembrance of a loved one who died in the terrorist Lockerbie plane crash over Scotland was a finalist in the UK Songwriting Contest, and a few years later a song I co-wrote won the Olympic Theme category in the same contest. Several of my songs have been performed in satb choir arrangements. Many of my recent songs have to do with social issues and aging.

Lyrics

ME AND MY HARLEY

Me and my Harley
We go ridin’
Any time, any place, anywhere that we can find a road
Me and my Harley
We’ve been all over
From Texas up through Nova Scotia, California, Mexico

And everywhere we go
When we ride by
People turn their heads
And I see it in their eyes
In their hearts
Secretly
They wanna ride a Harley like me
‘Cause I’m free
Me and my Harley

Me and my Harley
It’s like dancing’
Across a wondrous dance floor never knowin’ what the music has in store
Me and my Harley
We’ll dance forever
Ridin’ every road, seein’ things we never seen before

Wherever we go
When we ride by
People turn their heads
And I see it in their eyes
In their hearts
Secretly
They wanna ride a Harley like me
‘Cause I’m free
Me and my Harley

And they don’t know what a Harley knows
And they never go where a Harley goes

And they don’t know what it’s like to explode
When you open the throttle on a wide open road
The roar of the engine, the wind in your face
The ground rushin’ by, your heart starts to race
Nothin’ else matters, you leave it behind
Just you and your Harley, out for a ride
Oh no – They don’t know
Me and my Harley
Me and my Harley
Me and my Harley
Me and my Harley
© Marv Conan

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