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Learn To Drive

by Stickel & Son

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This is a retelling of my story - literally of how I learned to drive. As a farm kid, driving motorized vehicles and machinery was a necessity. Farming depended on it. However, since I've never been a particularly fast learner in anything, driving seemed like such a long-term challenge. I wanted to convey this in a song, again mostly for my own sons and their families, to recognize and appreciate that "anything in life worth having comes with a price - somehow".

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Learn to Drive

Think I was only seven or maybe I was only five.
I really don't remember when I first learned to drive.
Seated high on the tractor, perched upon my daddy's knee.
Round and round those acres, hand on the steering wheel.
Careful now, watch that corner.
Careful now to plow a straight line.
Keeping my eyes wide open-
That's how I learned to drive.

At twelve years old, I remember fighting with a stubborn machine
Driving that rusty old gas truck to the field with gasoline.
I'd ease that clutch out slowly, then feed the gas so carefully.
But try as I might, it kept stalling and died eventually.
Why does it never come easy? Why'd I stall it time after time?
Coughing and jerking and stalling -
That's how I learned to drive.

On my sixteenth birthday - was off to town to see the man,
Scared most half to death to take that driving exam.
I knew that book backwards and forwards,
Was sure by now I had it made.
But my parallel parking was shaky, and that's how I failed.
So, back to where I'd started.
Back to try it one more time.
Failing was never an option -
That's how I learned to drive.

There's a moral to this story - a lesson here quite profound.
Anything in life worth having comes with a price somehow.
You know, it will never come easy,
No matter how long you're alive.
You pick yourself up and keep moving -
That's how I learned to drive!

© Garry Stickel 2020

credits

released February 2, 2021
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Garry Stickel - music and lyrics
Kelly Stickel - arrangement, mixing engineer, producer

Players:
Garry Stickel - all vocals
Keenan Stickel - electric guitar
Kelly Stickel - acoustic and electric guitar, bass, drums, etc

Watercolour painting: "Learning to Drive" courtesy Gwen Stickel Fine Art

Mastered by Evergreen Sound, Calgary AB

Performing Rights: SOCAN

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Stickel & Son Cochrane, Alberta

Stickel & Son consists of the father and son duo of Garry and Kelly Stickel. Garry does the writing and singing; Kelly is the creative and technical genius who brings these songs to life. Born and raised in Alberta, their rural Alberta roots go deep. Both have lived and travelled extensively throughout the province and this experience flavours everything that they do. ... more

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