Lyr Req: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)

Subject: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: Owlkat
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 03:01 PM

Can anybody help me find the lyrics to the Jimmy Rogers' song, "Any Old Time"?
Thanks
Owl.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: Pene Azul
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 03:54 PM

You can get the lyrics, as performed by Hank Snow here (click).

Jeff

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: Greycap
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 06:47 PM

Jeff, Are we the only Hank Snow fans left? Roger

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: Stewie
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 06:50 PM

You'll find quite a few Jimmie Rodgers lyrics here, including the one you want:

Jimmie Rodgers

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 09:23 AM

Hell no! I've been a Hank Snow fan for close to 60 years.

Subject: Lyr Add: ANY OLD TIME (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 25 Mar 02 - 10:11 PM

So how come you Hank Snow fans don't want to copy a song into the thread, to make sure it will be saved for posterity?

Copied from http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~pjkuijve/#ANY OLD TIME:

ANY OLD TIME
(Jimmie Rodgers)

Oh, ley-he-ee, ah-le-oh-lay-he-he
D'yo-del-ay-he-he, d'yo-del-ay-hee.

I just received your letter. You're down-and-out, you say.
At first I thought I would tell you to travel on the other way.
But in my memory lingers all you once were to me.
I'm going to give you another chance to prove what you can be.

Any old time you want to come back home,
Drop me a line and say no mo' you'll roam.
You had your chance to play the game fair.
When you left me, sweetheart, you only left a load of care.

Now that you're down, I'm going to stick by you.
If you will only say your roaming days are through.
You'll find me here, like the day you left me alone
Any old time you want to come back home.

[Instrumental bridge -- mostly cornet, violin, clarinet]

You'll find me right here, like the day you left me alone
Any old time, you want to come back home.
(Home, home)

Artist: Jimmie Rodgers; Transcribed from Rounder CD 1057 "Jimmie Rodgers: "The Early Years, 1928-1929". Lyrics in this version, recorded in New York City, Feb. 21, 1929. Jimmy on solo vocal with a house orchestra of unknown violin, cornet, clarinet, tuba, piano, and trapman, and conducted by Leonard Joy.

Note, when Hank Snow recorded this song, he omitted verse 1 shown above.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: masato sakurai
Date: 25 Mar 02 - 10:19 PM

Jimmie Rodgers' "Any Old Time" (audio) is at Old Time Music from 78s site.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: masato sakurai
Date: 25 Mar 02 - 10:32 PM

KENNY ROBERTS sang this song (CLICK HERE for full audio).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 04:12 AM

I have commented very recently on the weird synchronicity of Mudcat. I was searching for these lyrics only yesterday, and found them. And now, the very next day... someone else is looking for them.

The first person I heard singing this was Maria Muldaur on her MIdnight At The Oasis album..

Cheers

Steven

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jimmy Rogers;Any Old Time
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Mar 02 - 08:48 AM

HELL no!

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Genie
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 03:58 AM

Funny, but I just came across this song (for the first time in years) while browsing YouTube and looking for "Jimmy MacGregor." I noticed this title, as sung by Hank MacGregor, and wondered if it was the same song I have on my Maria Muldaur album.
Yup.
The thing is, I had no idea Jimmie Rodgers wrote and first sang it!

Also, this is a song I really need to add to my repertoire for retirement home gigs and for song circles and jams.   Glad I stumbled across it again.

G

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Melissa
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 04:13 PM

I felt really clever when I figured out the chords for this song way back in the pre-internet days..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jun 08 - 03:00 AM

Listen to Jimmie Rodgers sing
"Any Old Time".

(I'm not sure Jimmie wrote it, but apparently he was one of the first to record it.)

Here's Hank Snow singing the same song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Fortunato
Date: 21 Jun 08 - 08:55 AM

The song was written by Jimmie Rodgers and recorded by these folks on these albums(among others that www.harryfox.com does not mention)

WEBB PIERCE         MORE AND MORE
GENE AUTRY         BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN
JIMMIE RODGERS         TRAIN WHISTLE BLUES
ALISON KRAUSS         JIMMIE RODGERS TRIBUTE
MARIA MULDAUR         MARIA MULDAUR


http://www.harryfox.com/songfile/public/publicsearchresults.do?forward=drilldown&index=1

Subject: Chords Add: ANY OLD TIME (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jun 08 - 06:14 PM

ANY OLD TIME

(Jimmie Rodgers)

Oh, ley-he-ee, ah-le-oh-lay-he-he
D'yo-del-ay-he-he, d'yo-del-ay-hee.


[G]I just received your letter.
You're [C]down-and-out, you [D]say.

At [A]first I thought I would tell you
to tra[D]vel on the other way.[D7]

But [G]in my memory lingers
all you [G7]once were to [C]me.

I'm going to (Am)give you an[G]other [E7]chance
to [D7]prove what you can [G]be.

Any old ti[G]me
You want to [D7]come back [G]home,[G7]

Dr[C]op me a line
and say no [D7]mo' you'll [G]roam.

Y[D]ou had your cha[D7]nce
to pl[C]ay the game f[A]ir.

But [A]When you left me, sweet[A7]heart,
you on[D]ly left a load of ca[D7]re.

N[G]ow that(D7) you're (G)down,
I'm [C]gonna to stick by [G]you.

If [A]you will only tell (A7)me
your roam[D]ing days are thr(D7)ough.

Yo[G]u'll find me here,
like the day you le[G7]ft me al[C]one

Any old ti[G]me [D7]
you want to come back ho[G]me.

Subject: Video: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Genie
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 04:36 PM

Here's Jimmie Rodgers singing his song, with a slide show of pics of that "Singing Brakeman" YouTube - Any Old Time

It's interesting how precisely and properly Jimmie pronounces the words; "going to," not "gonna"; "roaming," not "roamin'.    (He does sing "wanta," not "want to," though.) Nowadays people singing "country" or "blues" or a lot of "folk" (even pop and rock) seem to make a point of dropping a final "g" and so forth, and even lyric transcriptions and often song titles are written that way (e.g., "Do You Wanna Dance?").   Jimmie Rodgers didn't have to be deliberately sloppy to sound authentically country or folky.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 06:10 PM

Genie - you'll notice the same precision of diction with the early Sons Of The Pioneers and Roy Rogers too.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Genie
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 07:02 PM

Now that you mention it, Seamus, yes.

BTW, in my posting of the lyric with chords, I was basing transcribing the lyrics from Maria Muldaur's version of the song, and she's not nearly as precise and proper in pronouncing things like "going to" as Jimmie Rodgers was.    I actually prefer using the 'slangier' pronunciation, and Maria's version is bluesier, but I also appreciate Jimmie Rodgers's original.

Subject: Chords Add: ANY OLD TIME (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: GUEST,Doug
Date: 23 Sep 11 - 11:21 PM

i dont believe the song is in G. Pretty much everything jimmie did was in C. Try it this way.


Oh, ley-he-ee, ah-le-oh-lay-he-he
D'yo-del-ay-he-he, d'yo-del-ay-hee.


[C]I just received your letter.
You're [F]down-and-out, you [G]say.

At [D]first I thought I would tell you
to tra[G]vel on the other way.[G7]

But [C]in my memory lingers
all you [C7]once were to [F]me.

I'm going to (Am)give you an[C]other [A7]chance
to [G7]prove what you can [C]be.

Any old ti[C]me
You want to [G7]come back [C]home,[C7]

Dr[F]op me a line
and say no [G7]mo' you'll [C]roam.

Y[G]ou had your cha[G7]nce
to pl[F]ay the game f[D]ir.

But [D]When you left me, sweet[D7]heart,
you on[G]ly left a load of ca[G7]re.

N[C]ow that(D7) you're (G)down,
I'm [F]gonna to stick by [C]you.

If [D]you will only tell (A7)me
your roam[G]ing days are thr(D7)ough.

Yo[C]u'll find me here,
like the day you le[C7]ft me al[F]one

Any old ti[C]me [G7]
you want to come back ho[C]me.

Oh, ley-he-ee, ah-le-oh-lay-he-he
D'yo-del-ay-he-he, d'yo-del-ay-hee.