{"id":90,"date":"2016-11-27T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2016-11-24T00:37:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T04:37:41","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-thank-you-for-being-a-friend-andrew-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/27\/lyric-of-the-week-thank-you-for-being-a-friend-andrew-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: Thank You for Being a Friend (Andrew Gold)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>It’s the end of the Thanksgiving holiday and I’m sure you’ve barely made a dent in the leftovers from Thursday. I started this blog almost six months ago. If you’ve been following along, thanks for reading. The lyric I’ve chosen this week is one of my favorites to play at Thanksgiving. What are your favorite “thank you” songs?<\/p>\n

Enjoy Thank You for Being a Friend<\/em><\/a> by Andrew Gold<\/a> (from 1978’s All This and Heaven Too<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Thank you for being a friend
\n<\/em>Traveled down the road and back again<\/em>
\nYour heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not ashamed to say<\/em>
\nI hope it always will stay this way<\/em>
\nMy hat is off, won’t you stand up and take a bow<\/em><\/p>\n

And if you threw a party<\/em>
\nInvited everyone you knew<\/em>
\nYou would see, the biggest gift would be from me<\/em>
\nand the card attached would say,<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em><\/p>\n

If it’s a car you lack<\/em>
\nI’d surely buy you a Cadillac<\/em>
\nWhatever you need, anytime of the day or night<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not ashamed to say<\/em>
\nI hope it always will stay this way<\/em>
\nMy hat is off, won’t you stand up and take a bow<\/em><\/p>\n

And when we both get older<\/em>
\nWith walking canes and hair of gray<\/em>
\nHave no fear, even though it’s hard to hear<\/em>
\nI will stand real close and say,<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em><\/p>\n

(I want to thank you)<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em><\/p>\n

And when we die and float away<\/em>
\nInto the night, the Milky Way<\/em>
\nYou’ll hear me call, as we ascend <\/em>
\nI’ll see you there, then once again<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for being a friend<\/em>
\n(I want to thank you)<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em>
\nWhoa, tell you about a friend<\/em>
\n(Thank you right now, for being a friend)<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em>
\n(I wanna tell you right now, and tell you again)<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em>
\n(I wanna thank you, thank you, for being a friend)<\/em>
\nThank you for being a friend<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

If you have a favorite song that features entertaining lyrics which you’d like to see featured as a Lyric of the Week<\/strong>, drop me a line in the comments (or email me at ed@suitcasefullofdimes.com<\/a>) and tell me what you find special about the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the end of the Thanksgiving holiday and I’m sure you’ve barely made a dent in the leftovers from Thursday. I started this blog almost six months ago. If you’ve been following along, thanks for reading. The lyric I’ve chosen this week is one of my favorites to play at Thanksgiving. What are your favorite … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: Thank You for Being a Friend (Andrew Gold)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-1s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}