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If You’ve Got The Money (I’ve Got The Time)
If you’ve got the money, I’ve got the time
We’ll go honky tonkin’ and we’ll have a time
We’ll make all the night spots,
dance, drink beer and wine
If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got the time
There ain’t no use to tarry so let’s start out tonight Orbison, The Everly Brothers, Keith Whitley, Merle
We’ll spread joy, oh boy, oh boy,
and we’ll spread it right
We’ll have more fun, baby, all the way down the
line
If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got the time
If you’ve got the money, I’ve got the time
We’ll go honky tonkin’ and we’ll have a time
Bring along your Cadillac,
leave my old wreck behind
If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got the time
Yes, we’ll go honky tonkin’ make every club in
town
We’ll go to the park where it’s dark,
we won’t fool around
But if you run short of money, I’ll run short of time honky-tonk attitude and persona.
‘Cause you with no more money,
honey, I’ve no more time
If you’ve got the money, I’ve got the time
We’ll go honky tonkin’ and we’ll have a time
We’ll make all the nightspots,
dance, drink beer and wine
If you’ve got the money, honey,
I’ve got the time
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: James A. Beck / Lefty Frizzell
If You’ve Got The Money, I’ve Got The Time lyrics
© Peermusic Publishing
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illiam Orville “Lefty” Frizzell (March 31,
W1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American
country music singer-songwriter and honky-tonk
singer.
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He gained prominence in 1950 after two major
hits, and throughout the decade was a very popular
country performer.
Frizzell influenced a number of other Country
singers, including George Jones, Willie Nelson, Roy
Haggard, and John Fogerty. He was inducted into
the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1982. After the
death of Hank Williams in 1953, Frizzell released
many songs that charted in the Top 10 of the Hot
Country Songs charts. His success did not carry on
into the 1960s, and after suffering from alcoholism,
he died at age 47.
A vocalist who set the style of singing “the
Country way” for the generations that followed,
Frizzell became one of the most successful and
influential artists of country music throughout his
career. He smoothed out the rough edges of a
honky tonk song by sounding out syllables longer
and singing longer. Because of this, his music
became much more mainstream without losing its
Frizzell’s signature guitar was a 1949 Gibson J-200
(Model SJ-200). Originally built by the Gibson
Guitar Corporation, it was retrofitted in early 1951
with a custom neck and pickguard by guitar maker
and innovator Paul Bigsby. In a 2003 interview Merle
Haggard recalled, “When I was a teenager, Lefty got
me onstage [at the Rainbow Garden in Bakersfield,
California] and handed me that guitar. That is the
first guitar I played on a professional stage.” For many
years it had been on loan to and displayed at the
Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.
In January 2005 it was returned to the Frizzell family.
It was later sold at auction by Retrofret, with an
asking price of $350,000. Merle Haggard purchased
the guitar and it remains a part of his estate.
Frizzell’s style of singing influenced a great many
singers, particularly Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson,
George Jones, Keith Whitley, and Roy Orbison. In
addition, he was widely recognized for his
songwriting talents. (Source Wikipedia)
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