If I Loved You chords by Claire Moore, Dave Willetts
Verse 1
G
Em
C
G
C
G
C
["Ride of
G
C
G
the Valkyries"]
When I worked in the mill,
weaving at the loom,
I'd gaze absent -minded at the roof.
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And half the time the shuttle
would tangle in the threads,
F#m
F#
and the war could get mixed with the woof.
Ebm
Bb
If I loved you...
No, no, no, no,
But you don't. No, I don't.
Eb
But somehow I can see
C#
Ab
Just exactly how I'd be
C#
C#dim
If I loved you
C#
Faug
Time and again I would try to say
F#
Edim
C
C#
Abdim
All I want you to know
E
Ebm
Absus4
Ab
C#
C#dim
If I loved you
C#
Ab
C#
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Faug
F#
Edim
C
Round in circles I'd
Edim
C#
Faug
go
Bbm
Ebm
F#dim
Longing to tell you, but afraid and shy
C#
Ab
C#
Ebm
God let my golden chandelier
B
Eb
F#
Ab
pass me by
C#
C#dim
Soon you'd leave me
C#
Ab
C#
Faug
Off you would go in the mis t of day
F
F#
C
C#
Never, never to know
F#
Fm
Ebm
How I love you
Absus4
Ab
C#
C
Am
F
C
Am
D
Am
You can't hear a sound, the turn of a leaf,
D
F#dim
nor the fall of a wave
Ebdim
Bm
D
hit tin' the sand.
Em
A
Am
The tide's creepin' up
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Adim
on the beach like a thief,
D
afraid to be caught stealin' the land.
G
Baug
C
On a night like this,
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G
Baug
C
Adim
I start to wonder what life
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G
D
G
is all about.
Baug
C
And I always say two heads are
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E
Am
better than one to figure it out.
D
Yeah,
G
well, I don't need you or anyone to help me.
D
G
I've it figured out for myself, see.
We ain't important.
C
F
What are we?
Am
C
Just a couple of specks of nothing.
Am
Look up there.
C
Am
D
C
You can't even count the stars in the sky
F#dim
And the sky's so big the
Ebdim
D
Bm
sea looks small
Em
A
Am
And two little people,
F
Adim
you and I,
G
Ddim
Eb
we don't count at all.
Kinda scrawny and pale,
pickin' at my food,
and lovesick like any other guy.
I'd throw away my sweater
and dress up like a dude in
a dickie and a collar and a tie
Bb
If I loved you
Ebm
Bb
But you don't no I don't
Bbm
Eb
But somehow I can't see
C#
Just exactly
Ab
How I'd be
C#
C#dim
If I loved you
C#
Time and again
Faug
I would try to say
F#
C
All I'd want you to
C#
E
Ebm
Absus4
know
Ab
C#
C#dim
If I loved you,
C#
Ab
words wouldn't come
C#
Faug
F
in an easy way.
Gb
Edim
C
Edim
Round in circles I
C#
Faug
go.
Bbm
Ebm
Longing to tell you,
F#dim
but afraid and shy
C#
Ebm
B
I'd let my golden chances pass
Baug
Eb
F#
Absus4
me by
Ab
C#
C#dim
Very soon you'd leave me
C#
Ab
C#
Faug
Off you would go in the mis t of day
F
F#
Edim
C#
Never, never to know
F#
Fm
Ebm
F#
Oh, how I love you
Absus4
C#
Ebdim
F#m
C#
If I loved you you
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