Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew
Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens
I've been in love with you
Stronger than any mountain cathedral
Truer than any tree ever grew
Deeper than any forest primeval
I am in love with you
I'll bring fire in the winters
You'll send showers in the springs
We'll fly through the falls and summers
With love on our wings
Through the years as the fire starts to mellow
Burning lines in the book of our lives
Though the binding cracks and the pages start to mellow
I'll be in love with you
Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew
Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens
I've been in love with you
I am in love with you
"Longer"
Words and music by Daniel Fogelberg
Copyright 1979 Hickory Grove Music (ASCAP)
"The song I jokingly refer to as, the song that put me on the elevators. I wrote it on a vacation on Maui in 1979 while lounging in a hammock one night and looking up at the stars. It just seems this song was drifting around the universe, saw me, and decided I'd give it a good home."
-Dan Fogelberg, from the liner notes in Portrait. 
Photography by Andy Katz Released on LP, 8-track and cassette tape
in November, 1979 by Epic/CBS Records
Produced by Dan Fogelberg and Norbert
Putnam for Full Moon Productions
Certified Double Platinum
TULLAMORE DEW
Music by Daniel Fogelberg
Guitars, Prophet 5 synthesizer,
percussion: DAN FOGELBERG
PHOENIX
Words & music by Daniel Fogelberg
Acoustic and electric guitars,
lead and backgrouind vocals,
Prophet 5: DAN FOGELBERG
Piano: PAUL HARRIS
Organ: MIKE UTLEY
Bass: NORBERT PUTNAM
Drums: ANDY NEWMARK
GYPSY WIND
Words & music by Daniel Fogelberg
Acoustic and electric guitars,
antique ankle bells, lead and back-
ground vocals: DAN FOGELBERG
Bass: NORBERT PUTNAM
Drums: ANDY NEWMARK
Percussion: KENNY BUTTREY
THE LAST TO KNOW
Words & Music by Daniel Fogelberg
Acoustic and electric guitars,
pedal guitars, electric piano,
lead and gackground vocals:
DAN FOGELBERG
Bass: NORBERT PUTNAM
Drums: ANDY NEWMARK
Congas: JODY LINSCOTT
FACE THE FIRE
Words & Music by Daniel Fogelberg
Acoustic and electric guitars,
pedal guitars, electric piano,
lead and background vocals:
DAN FOGELBERG
Bass: NORBERT PUTNAM
Drums: ANDY NEWMARK
Congas: JODY LINSCOTT
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WISHING ON THE MOON
Words and Music by Daniel Fogelberg
Acoustic and electric guitars,
piano, slide guitars, lead and
background vocals: DAN FOGELBERG
Drums: RUSS KUNKEL
Bass: NORBERT PUTNAM
HEART HOTELS
Words and music by Daniel Fogelberg
Piano, electric piano, elctric
guitars, lead and background
vocals: DAN FOGELBERG
Bass: NORBERT PUTNAM
Drums: ANDY NEWMARK
Lyricon solo and saxophones:
TOM SCOTT
Congas: RUSS KUNKEL
LONGER
Acoustic guitar and vocals:
DAN FOGELBERG
Fluegelhorn solo: JERRY HEY
Harp: GAIL LEVANT
BEGGER'S GAME
Words and music by Daniel Fogegberg
(To Esmerelda from Gringoire)
Piano, acoustic and electric
guitars, Prophet 5 synthesizer,
percussion, lead and background
vocals: DAN FOGELBERG
Drums: ANDY NEWMARK
Bass: NORBERT PUTNAM
ALONG THE ROAD
Words and music by Daniel Fogelberg
Acoustic guitars, Prophet 5
synthesizer, bass, lead and
backgound vocals: DAN FOGELBERG
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Produced by Dan Fogelberg
with NORBERT PUTNAM and MARTY LEWIS
Orchestral arrangements by GLEN SPREEN
and DAN FOGELBERG
Concert Master: SID SHARP
Engineered by MARTY LEWIS and
JEFF GUERCIO
Mixed at Quadrafonic Sound Studios,
Nashville, Tn. by MARTY LEWIS
RECORDED NOVEMBER 1978 - OCTOBER 1979 at:
Record Plant, Sausalito, California
Northstar, Boulder, Colorado
Quadrafonic, Nashville, Tennessee
Village Recorder, West Los Angeles,
California
Bayshore Recording, Miami, Florida
Mastered by GLENN MEADOWS, Masterfonic,
Nashville, Tn.
All compositions by DANIEL FOGELBERG
copyright 1979
Hickory Grove Music ASCAP
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Dan Fogelberg's share of publisher and writer
royalties received from "Face the Fire"
have been donated to the Campaign for
Economic Democracy Education Fund to be used
for anti-nuclear and pro-solar energy activities.
For information about C.E.D., write to
304 S. Broadway, Room 501, Los Angeles, CA 90003
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Dan Murakami, Irv (Papa Bear) Azoff,
Charlie Fernandez, Norbert Putnam,
Nina Avramides, Howard Kaufman,
Michael Rosenfeld,
Tom Bradwhaw, Bob Buziak,
John Baulsir, Walter Yetnikoff,
John Logan, John Carruthers,
Ed Schadffer for supplying
the Prophet 5, the good people
at Northstar, Tom BAtes, Bob Rourke
and his "Beaver Fever" crew,
Maggie, Pancho and Loki,
Merlyn Land-Bat, and Bracket and
Courageous for supplying horse sense
Cover by DAN FOGELBERG
Photography: ANDY KATZ
Design Consultant: KOSH
MANAGEMENT:l Front Line Management
8380 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, Ca. 90069
Jerry Hey appears coutesy of A&M Records, Inc.
Tom Scott appears courtesy of Columbia Records.
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