Lyr Req: If I Had a Nickel

08 Jul 02 - 01:42 AM (#744196)
Subject: If I Had a Nickel
From: wildflowersuzyq

I am looking for the complete lyrics &/or sheet music for the song :

If I had a nickel, I know what I would do,
I'd spend it all on candy and give it all to you

--and that's all I know. It was written by Jim Folsen (spelling?) who later was governor of Tennessee. Please let me know if you have more lyrics to this song my daddy used to sing to me and I recently heard at Fiddle Tunes here in Port Townsend. Thanks

---

08 Jul 02 - 09:39 AM (#744326)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If I Had a Nickel
From: Sorcha

Check here,title is That's How Much I Love You.

---

08 Jul 02 - 09:49 AM (#744329)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: If I Had a Nickel
From: masato sakurai

I have a Red Foley recording (1947).

~Masato

---

11 Jul 02 - 10:34 AM (#746477)
Subject: Lyr Add: THAT'S HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/3225/Misc_Pop/Pat_Boone/Thats_How_Much_I_Love_You.txt

THAT'S HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
(Eddy Arnold, Wally Fowler and J. Graydon Hall)

[A # 2 C&W hit for co-writer Eddy Arnold in 1946.
A # 10 Pop hit for Frank Sinatra in 1947.
Peaked at # 39 for Pat Boone in 1958.]

Well, if I had a nickel, I know what I would do:
I'd spend it all on candy and give it all to you.
I'd spend it all on candy and give it all to you,
'Cause that's how much I love you, baby.
That's how much I love you.

And if you were a kitten with pretty, glossy fur,
I'd take you up and stroke you and listen to you purr.
I'd take you up and stroke you and listen to you purr,
'Cause that's how much I love you, baby.
That's how much I love you.

And if you were a horsefly and I an old gray mare,
I'd stand and let you bite me and never move a hair.
I'd stand and let you bite me and never move a hair,
'Cause that's how much I love you, baby.
That's how much I love you.

Well, if you were a tiger I'd hang around your den,
And pester you, my honey, until you let me in.
And pester you, my honey, until you let me in,
'Cause that's how much I love you, baby.
That's how much I love you.

Well, if you want to marry now, let me tell you what:
We'll go and find the parson and let him tie the knot.
We'll go and find the parson and let him tie the knot,
'Cause that's how much I love you, baby.
That's how much I love you.

---