"Asker Oldum Giydim Yelek" (English: "I Became a Soldier, I Put on the Vest"), also as "Conrado's Sad Song" (Portuguese: "Música Triste do Conrado") is a Turkish melancholic song about a soldier longing for his family that played in the DVD version of an episode of the Brazilian black comedy cartoon Fudêncio e Seus Amigos, which aired on MTV Brazil from 2005 to 2011.
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The song was first found in the episode "Cotas de Cocotas", the thirteenth in the series' first season, originally aired on 20 September 2005, with its DVD version released in 2008. In the scene, a melancholic song plays while character Conrado, known for his extreme bad luck, reminisces about several instances in which he suffered in this and previous episodes, particularly at the hands of Fudêncio, the series' namesake, who is a sadistic, macabre boy.
In the original television version of the episode, the song that plays in this scene is "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" by Milli Vanilli, which is accompanied by Portuguese-language subtitles (not an actual translation of the song, but rather a comic, vulgar parody of it).
In the DVD released in 2008, however, "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" was replaced by this unknown royalty-free song, which is the focus of this article. The original subtitles, which are not an actual translation of either "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" or this song, remained.
False leads[]
Before its language identification, some have speculated that this was an Arabic song, but it does not sound so. YouTube caption system had correctly detected the language as Turkish. A commentator has compared the song to those of Breton singer Denez Prigent, so the song might be in Breton, but this was debunked.
Unlike other songs that replaced copyrighted songs in the series, this song was not an original song made by Arthur Jolly, the main musician for the series.