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Lyr/Chords Add: Born to Be with You (Don Robertson

11 Sep 00 - 03:37 PM (#295174)
Subject: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: wysiwyg

Well, while I was in California I found the most delightful bluegrass book, The Bluegrass Fakebook, with 150 songs, 50 of them gospel, for only $14.95, by Bert Casey, pub. Cassette & Video Learning Systems. It has the sweetest lil love song I ever saw, and I believe it is a universal one, fit to express any kinda love you can think of (Spaw, quit that!!). It can even be a hymn. The title pops up in Mudcat SuperSearch, but I dunno if people meant this one or something else with the same title.

Anyway here it is.


BORN TO BE WITH YOU
by Don Robertson

(G) By your (D) side,
(G7) Satis- (G) -fied
(G7) Through and (C) through-- 'Cause I was (G) born (D) to be with you.

Wondrously
Love can see.
So I knew
That I was born to be with you.

Do I find
Peace of mind?
Yes I do!
'Cause I was born to be with you.

(C) 1956 Dan Robertson Music Corp. (ASCAP)
(C) Renewed by Donald Irwin Robertson 1984
Original Publisher Edwin H. Morris & Co. Inc.

Discography:
JD Crowe & The New South - Live in Japan
Louvin Brothers - Close Harmony
Jim Reeves - Welcome To My World

I propose this for one of several Mudcat Theme Songs. Musicians all... born to be together... here.

~S~


11 Sep 00 - 06:42 PM (#295270)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: wysiwyg

OK, Joe Offer sez I gotta do these more better.

~S~

BORN TO BE WITH YOU (Don Robertson)

By your side,
Satisfied
Through and through--
'Cause I was born to be with you.

Wondrously
Love can see.
So I knew
That I was born to be with you.

Do I find
Peace of mind?
Yes I do!
'Cause I was born to be with you.

CHORDS (G) By your (D) side,
(G7) Satis- (G) -fied
(G7) Through and (C) through--
'Cause I was (G) born (D) to be with you.

Source: (C) 1956 Dan Robertson Music Corp. (ASCAP) (C) Renewed by Donald Irwin Robertson 1984. Original Publisher Edwin H. Morris & Co. Inc. From "The Bluegrass Fakebook," by Bert Casey, publisher: Cassette & Video Learning Systems

Discography:
JD Crowe & The New South - Live in Japan
Louvin Brothers - Close Harmony
Jim Reeves - Welcome To My World

@gospel @bluegrass
SH


11 Sep 00 - 07:00 PM (#295280)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: Giac

Didn't Gogi Grant have a hit with that in the early 50s? If she didn't have the hit record, then she must have sung it on "The Hit Parade" on radio (and/or TV). I know the song and can hear it in her voice. Probably my senility kicking in again. ~:o)

It was about the same time that "Wayward Wind" was a big number, I think. I had malaria and was bedfast for months, lying there listening to the radio, alternately chilling and sweating and tripping from the fever. My mother said I sang a lot when I was delirious. Hmmmm, in retrospect, that explains a lot! **BG**


11 Sep 00 - 07:35 PM (#295300)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: wysiwyg

Ah, Giac, if only we had tapes of the singing!

~S~


12 Sep 00 - 02:12 AM (#295507)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: Joe Offer

Is this a song, or a haiku?
-Joe Offer-


12 Sep 00 - 09:22 AM (#295594)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: John Hindsill

I sort of remember this song popularized by the Chordettes ('Mr. Sandman') or was it the lovely Lennon Sisters? Or was [emphasis]it Gogi Grant? I'll stick with my first answer.---John


12 Sep 00 - 10:19 AM (#295622)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: Giac

I heard it as a song, Joe, honest, full of space between lines, but maybe it started life as a haiku and devolved into a lower life form.

The Chordettes, you say, hmmmmmmm, could be.


12 Sep 00 - 10:28 AM (#295625)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: wysiwyg

Well Joe, it seems like a bitty ditty now but stop and think. There we are, in the San Francisco airport, and I am sitting beside you giggling over something you just said, and you say something about how much fun it is to meet another Mudcatter, and I burst into this little song. Because, dear friend, I was born to be with you! How else could such a meeting have occurred? Born to be with you, just as surely as though I had been born your sister. And Joe. As a hymn. Try it. Born to be with You, Lord, made for you.... Or Jesus singing to us, Born to be with you, Joe.

Aw hell. I'll tape it and send it so you can catch the tune. I'll do it in church as an offertory, we are taping the services now on Saturday night, bad as we sound!

~S~


12 Sep 00 - 10:36 AM (#295631)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: LR Mole

Why do I hear this in my head in Leo Kottke's voice? Is it on "Ice Water", perhaps?


12 Sep 00 - 11:19 AM (#295665)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: BORN TO BE WITH YOU
From: Dale Rose

Sonny James?