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Thread #116137 Message #2515165
Posted By: Richie
14-Dec-08 - 03:44 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'VE BEEN A FRIEND TO ME
You've Been a Friend to Me is a song by Will Hays in 1868. Here's the sheet music:http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mussm&fileName=sm/sm1879/11900/11919/mussm11919.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?mussm:1:./tem YOU'VE BEEN A FRIEND TO ME- Carter family 1936 Oh, I'll ne'er forget where e'er I roam Where ever you may be If ever I have had a friend You have been that friend to me My bark of life was tossing down The troubled stream of time When first I saw your smiling face And youth was in its prime Oh, I'll ne'er forget where e'er I roam Where ever you may be If ever I have had a friend You have been that friend to me [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK] Misfortune nursed me as her child And loved me fondly, too I would have had a broken heart Had it not been for you Oh, I'll ne'er forget where e'er I roam Where ever you may be If ever I have had a friend You have been that friend to me [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK] Now I look back upon the past Acrost life's troubled seas And smile to think of all I've seen You've been a friend to me Oh, I'll ne'er forget where e'er I roam Where ever you may be If ever I have had a friend You have been that friend to me Oh, I'll ne'er forget where e'er I roam Where ever you may be If ever I have had a friend You have been that friend to me