Thanks, Jim. That makes sense.
I know it may sound trivial, but I swear I don't remember seeing words like "anymore," "anytime," "alot" commonly used instead of "any more," "any time," and "a lot" until just the last few years.   Kelly Clarkson recorded a new song titled "Anytime" - spelled that way - back in 2003, and I wrote it off as just sloppy spelling. I didn't realize that spelling had been used for Lawson's song so far back.

(I just checked Merriam-Webster's online dictionary to see if it was spelled as one word or two, and, ironically, they used the two-word form as part of the definition of the single word form:

an⋅y⋅time  [en-ee-tahym]
–adverb
1.        at any time; regardless of hour, date, etc.; whenever.

So, obviously, either way is acceptable.


BTW, I did not know the verse, nor did I know the alternate couplet:
"Anytime will be the right time.
Anytime at all will do."

Thanks for posting them.

This is one song that almost always gets lots of people singing along when I do it. Looking at that partial list of artists who have recorded it, I am not surprised so many people know it.