Early in the morning I needed you I wanted you by my side The aviator, the celebrity Taken from a country and a wife Oh the Orion to Port Barrow I had to have known all this time The land of the midnight Sun The last frontier My cowboy dear said goodbye And he was singing: Lord let me live until I die He was singing: Lord let me live until I die The ropin’ fool, the Cherokee lassoed my heart My blazing star, I was his sky Searching for another truth, the next great joke I’ve always known he could fly And he was singing: Lord let me live until I die He was singing: Lord let me live until I die And he was singing: Lord let me live until I die He was singing: Lord let me live until I die