Story Behind the Song
The answer to 30 yrs of playing in bars and having people come up and request dumb songs.
Lyrics
Play Something Good (S. Goldberger)
Why don't you play something good - that I can enjoy.
That stuff that your doin' - gets me really annoyed.
Won't you play me a fast one - some Johnny Be Good will do fine.
I've been listening to you all night long.
Your band sounds alright but it's just boring old love songs
Play something good - I wanna dance all night.
Why don't you play something good - Make me feel just like I used to.
When that good old rock and roll took the pain away - made me right as day.
Like Chuck Berry said, "let it rock tonight" - Oh honey just like we used to.
I wanna get in the T-Bird and turn up the radio...
Brown Eyed Girl is alright and a slow dance is nice,
but like Bob Seeger said, rock and roll is my vice.
Why don't you play me a fast one - Roll Over
Beethoven'd be nice. Da do run run run,
baby let it be me. Little Richard, Dave Edmunds
or the Everly's. Won't you play me a
fast one - a little Mustang Sally - alright.
Play something good - I wanna dance all night.
Why don't you play something good - Make me feel
just like I used to. When that good old rock and roll
took the pain away - made me right as day.
Like Chuck Berry said, "let it rock tonight" -- Oh honey just like we used to.
I wanna get in the T-Bird and go to the diner. Find us a good booth - and order a milkshake.
Get out a quarter - turn up the jukebox.
Flip through the titles and pick out a fast one and dance till the break of dawn...
Steve: Hammond organ, bass, vocals / Eric Mahar: guitar
Herb Nelson: Hammond organ, piano / Jesse MacKay: drums, sleigh bells /
Penner MacKay: cowbell, congas, tambourine
Gayle Ackroyd, Dawn DuVall , Dory Karr: vocals
copyright 2001 SOCAN Dory Cottage Music
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