"If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)" is a debut song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Lefty Frizzell, released on September 14, 1950.
During a show there, Jim Beck, owner of a local recording studio, was starting to take notice of Frizzell.
Beck had deals with several major record producing labels and maintained connections with the many publishers.
Impressed with Frizzell's performance, he invited him to make a free demo at the studio.
There he recorded four songs, the first: "I Love You a Thousand Ways", which was written by Frizzell as a letter to his newly wed wife, when he was jailed in 1947 for having sex with an underage girl.