If I Loved You

Julie Jordon
You're a queer one Julie Jordan
Ain't you sorry that you didn't run away
You can still go if you wanna
I reckon that I care to choose to stay
You couldn't take my money if I didn't have any
And I don't have a penny that's true
And if I did have money
You couldn't take any
'Cause you'd ask an' I'd give it to you
You're a queer one Julie Jordan
Ain't you ever had a fella you give money to
No
Ain't you ever had a fella at all
No
Well you must have a fella you went walkin' with
Yes
Where'd you walk
Nowhere special I recall
In the woods
No
On the beach
No
Did you love him
No
Never loved no one I told you that
I'm never gonna marry if I was gonna marry
I wouldn't have to be such a stickler
But I'm never gonna marry
And a girl who don't marry
Has got to be much more partic'lar
When I work in the mill weaving at the loom
I gaze absent minded at the roof
And half the time the shuttle get tangled in the threads
And the warp would get mixed with the woof
If I loved you
But you don't
No I don't
But somehow I can see
Just exactly how I'd be
If I loved you
Time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know
If I loved you
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Round in circles I'd go
Longin' to tell you
But afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances pass me by
Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of day
Never never to know how I loved you
If I loved you
You can't hear a sound not the turn of a leaf
Nor the fall of a wave hittin' the sand
The tide's creepin' up on the beach like a thief
Afraid to be caught stealin' the land
On a night like this I start to wonder
What life is all about
And I always say two heads are better than one to
Figure it out
There's a hell of a lotta stars in the sky
And the sky's so big the sea looks small
And two little people you and I
We don't count at all
Kind scrawny and pale
Picking at my food
And love sick like any other guy
I'd throw away my sweater and dress up like a dude
In a dicky and a collar and a tie
If I loved you
But somehow I can see
Just exactly how I'd be
If I loved you
Time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know
If I loved you
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Round in circles I'd go
Longin' to tell you
But afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances pass me by
Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of day
Never never to know
How I loved you
If I loved you