For Jim Croce, the touring life meant mostly one small
collage campus after another. When he was killed at age 30
on September 20, 1973 in Natchitoches, LA., he was doing
what he had done many times before - - taking off at night
in a light plane from a small airstrip.The plane snagged in
a treetop at the end of the dim runway outside Natchitoches
La., and sent 30 year old Jim and five others to their
deaths. Maury Muehleisen, Jim's lead guitarist and constant
companion, also died in the crash.
In a burst of discovery, the U.S. record-buying public was
making it up to Croce. You Don't Mess Around With Jim , his
first solo LP, had tripled it's sales and has jumped past
the 1 million mark. And was No. 1 on Billboard's chart of
bestselling LP's. Croce also occupied More...
I can recall just where I was when this song was hot. It's a haunting melody, a classic. It's so sad he died so young. I was never a big fan of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, or "You Don't Mess around with Jim", but I can never get tired of hearing this song, and "I Have to Say I Love You In A Song" and of course, "Time In A Bottle"
The saddest thing is this is a true story. He came back from the army and his woman left him for his best friend. The man was only 30 when he died, and yet his life was still full of the pain that an 80 year old man feels through his years. Fucked up......
I READ THE LYRICS TO YOUR VERSION OF GREENBACK DOLLAR--
THERE MUST BE ANOTHER SONG---
THAT I LEARNED AS A CHILD--
IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE--
I DON'T WANT YOUR GREENBACK DOLLARS--
I DON'T WANT YOUR WATCH AND CHAIN-
ALL I WANT IS YOU MY DARLING--
WON'T YOU TAKE ME BACK AGAIN===
MANY MIGHTS DID I WANDER-
DOWN BESIDE THE DEEP BLUE SEA--
IN YOUR HEART YOU LOVE ANOTHER--
IN MY GRAVE I'D RATHER BE---
AND I CAN NOT REMEMBER THE OTHER VERSES--
BUT I DO KNOW THE TUNE---
THANKS--
DO YOU KNOW THIS VERSION OR WHERE I CAN GET IT??
lovers cross | Reviewer: Tom F.
------ About the song Lover's Cross performed by Jim Croce
Lover's Cross is a timeless entry into the world of good loving gone bad genre of what might have been. Jim Croce had a tremendous skill in starting and ending truley emotional songs. His insight, spirit and verbage are sorely today.
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