Lyr Req: As Long As I Live (from Jim Ringer)

Subject: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: bermuda (inactive)
Date: 04 May 99 - 05:16 PM

Jim Ringer released an album titled "Any Old Wind That Blows" in 1975. The second tract on the A side was titled (I think)"As Long as I Live". It was a song about friendship. If anyone knows the lyrics to that song I would greatly appreciate it if you could pass them along.

Thank you

Subject: Lyr Add: AS LONG AS I LIVE (Roy Acuff)
From: harpgirl
Date: 04 May 99 - 05:52 PM

Bermuda,
Here's what I have. I don't think it is complete...

As long as I live, if it be one hour
Or if it be one hundred years
I'll keep rememberin forever and ever
I'll love you dear just as long as I live

It was easy said that night we parted
That we'd forget we ever had met
I haven't forgotten, I wonder if you have
Or if you're heart's too full of regret

As long as I live if it be one hour
Or if it be one hundred years
I'll keep rememberin forever and ever
I'll love you dear just as long as I live

That ole bright moon we once saw together
Somehow without you don't shine the same
In every bright star I see your sweet face
and the soft breezes blowin seem to whisper your name

As long as I live if it be one hour
Or if it be one hundred years
I'll keep rmemeberin forever and ever
I'll love you dear just as ong as I live

There might be another verse, bermuda...harpgirl

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Frank of Toledo
Date: 04 May 99 - 05:55 PM

Does the chorus go something like this? "SHE'S A BUTTERFLY IN MID JULY AND JUST CAN'T SEEM TO FIND HER BRAND NEW WINGS?" If so I have an old album with lyrics that I'll dust off and get them.

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 04 May 99 - 06:00 PM

What'd I tell you, Bermuda? Thirty-six minutes ain't bad, right? Keep watching, there may be more coming soon. These Mudcatters are somethin' else!

Sandy at Folk-Legacy

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Frank of Toledo
Date: 04 May 99 - 06:18 PM

I must have the wrong song, but I know the title is correct. A Nashville singer-songwriter in the early 70's wote a song titled "ANY OLD WIND THAT BLOWS'. I have the old dusty LP and it was recorded by Johnnny Cash sometime in the late 70's or early 80"s. The laslt line goes..."SHE'LL GO SAILING OFF ON ANY OLD WIND THAT BLOWS"....................

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Banjer
Date: 04 May 99 - 06:58 PM

Harpgirl, I recognize the lyrics you wrote but I remember Kitty Wells, the Grande Dame of Country Music doing that song. Beautiful song it is.....

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: bermuda (inactive)
Date: 04 May 99 - 08:25 PM

harpgirl Thanks, but I'm not sure those are the lyrics I'm looking for. Do you have the album? I think the chorus went something like this: As long as I live, wherever I go Whatever I may do. If ever I have had a friend, I've had a friend in you.

bermuda

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: harpgirl
Date: 04 May 99 - 10:54 PM

Bermuda,
I have the album out and the second cut on the A side is As Long as I live (by Roy Acuff) with those words. So I guess it must be another song you are looking for, huh? harpgirl

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 04 May 99 - 11:18 PM

Bermuda: Could you be misremembering, and the song you're seeking is the old Carter Family song called "You've Been a Friend to Me?" The last lines of its refrain are "If ever I have had a friend, you've been that friend to me." Sounds suspiciously like the one you're quoting above.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: harpgirl
Date: 04 May 99 - 11:45 PM

ohhhh synchronicity, Sandy. That is the melody I think Sara Ogan Gunning uses on "I hate the company bosses." Now that you mention it the fact that it is a Carter tune would place it in the right era for Sara's song...harpgirly

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Mudjack
Date: 05 May 99 - 01:18 AM

My God,how it feels so good to hear Jim's name hit the threads from time to time. It means some Mudcatters out there who never had the good pleasure of seeing or hearing him sing might go out and discover Jim's music and singing of songs. He had a corner on sounding so committed to song. Jim was a major influence on my wanting to sing songs with that kind of committment.Iv'e got all my LPs packed away for moving. Sorry I could'nt help out and even more regrets I can't get to them to hear 'em. Mudjack

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Stewie
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 04:19 AM

I stumbled across this old thread. I thought I might add Dick Feller's fine song which Frank of Toledo was puzzling about above. It is from his 'Dick Feller Wrote...' album.

ANY OLD WIND THAT BLOWS

Lord she's restless
Like cotton candy clouds that sail the day
Slow and free ... and she possesses
A mind that can't resign itself to stay
For long with me
Though I've tried and tried, to keep her tied and satisfied
Until she really needs me
But when that certain look comes on her face
I can't replace it
And she leaves me

Chorus:
She's a butterfly in mid July
Who just can't wait to try
Her brand new wings
On brand new things
And she needs no rhyme or reason when she goes
Her mind is on what lies beyond that wall of blue horizon I suppose
And heaven knows
She'll go sailin' off on any old wind that blows

I know she needs me
About as much as I need someone else
Which I don't ... And if need be
I swear some day I'll up and leave myself ... which I won't
But even If she loved another man I'd understand it more than I do
But I know the only reason that she ever has for leavin', is she wants to

Chorus

She'll go sailin' off on any old wind that blows

Words and music by Dick Feller. Copyright House of Cash.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Help with lyrics to a Jim Ringer Song
From: Art Thieme
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 12:40 PM

Jim Ringer's great CD on Folk Legacy (with the superlative song "California Joe") is available now from Sandy Paton's Folk Legacy Records. www.folklegacy.com

Art