Bill Harley 1984
“This started out as a kid’s song, ended up being for adults and now is on a kid’s recording. It’s for the adults that are going to hear it.”
Bill Harley: That’s What Friends Are For
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVM5D5EkFGg
Chorus: If you’ve got potatoes and I got tomatoes We could have dinner together If you got a raincoat and I got a tugboat We’ll sail no matter the weather If I had money and the sky was sunny We could spend the day by the shore You know I’d be glad to share what I had That’s what friends are for If you’re down on your luck, you don’t have a buck There’s holes in the toes of your shoes You’re scrounging for pennies, You can’t find any, you’ve got nothing left to lose Don’t you worry about dollars, Just give me a holler a whistle and yodel-ay-ee-ooo If I got a nickel we’ll go buy a pickle I’d be happy to share it with you If the job that you’ve got just makes your mind rot Everybody takes you for granted You’re frying your mind to five from nine And you feel like you’re on the wrong planet Don’t mess with those blues; you’ve got nothing to lose In walking from a place like that Why we can sing in the streets and be light on our feet We’ll split what goes into the hat When you get older, people get colder Don’t give you the time of day They just ignore you, they don’t care for you Just cause your hair’s gone grey Don’t feel alone, get on the phone Dial my number give me a ring I’ll be that way too, wearing corrective shoes We can get together and sing