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If I Loved You chords by
Jan Clayton
Jan Clayton

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Verse 1
Em

Say, tell me something.

Ain't you scared of me?
Am

I ain't scared.
D
G

That your name, Julie?
D
Em
G
D
G

Julie something? Julie Jordan.
Ab

You're a queer one, Julie Jordan.
Eb

Ain't you sorry that
Cb

you didn't run away?
Bbm
Eb
Ab

You can still go if you wanna.
Db
Eb
Ab

I reckon that I care to choose to stay.

You couldn't take my money
F

if I didn't have any,
Eb

and I don't have a penny, that's true.
Ab

But if I did have money,
Eb

you couldn't take any,

cause you'd ask
Ab

and I'd give it to you.

You're a queer one,

Julie Jordan.

Ain't you ever had a
Db
Gb

fella you'd give money to?
Db
Gb

No. Ain't you ever had a fella at all?

No.
Db

Well, you must have had a fella
Gb

you went walking with?
Db
Ab

Yes. Where'd you walk?
Db

Nowhere special, I recall.
Gb
Db

In the woods?
Gb

No. On the beach?
Db

No. Did you love him?
Ab

No. Never loved no one. told you that.
Eb

You're a funny kid.
Ab

You want to go into town

and dance, maybe?

Oh, no.

I have to be careful.

Of what my character you see

I'm never going to marry

I'm never going to marry
F

if I was going to marry
Eb
Ab

I wouldn't have to be such a stickler

But I'm never going to marry
F

and a girl who don't marry
Eb
Ab

has got to be much more particular
Db

Suppose I was to say to you
Ab

that I'd marry you
Fm

Oh, that scares you, don't it?
Db

You're thinking about what that cop said.
Eb

No, I ain't.
Ab

I don't pay no mind to what he said.
Db

But you wouldn't marry anyone like
Eb

me, would you?
Ab

Oh, yes, I would.

If I loved you,
Bbsus4

it wouldn't make any difference,
Bb

would you?
Db

Even if I died for it.

How do you know

what you'd do if you loved me?


Or how you'd feel or anything?
Cb

I don't know how I know. Eh.
G
Em

Just the same, I know how I...
G

How it'd be if I loved you.

When I worked in the mill,
Em

weaving at the loom
G

I'd gaze absent -minded at the roof
Gb

And half the time the shuttle
Db
Gb

would tangle in the thread

And the warp would get mixed
Cb
Bb
F

with the woof if I loved you.
Bb

But you don't.

No, I don't.
Eb

But somehow I can see
Ab
Db
Ab

just exactly how I'd be
Db
Dbdim
Fbdim

if I loved you
Db
Faug

Time and again I would try to say
Ebm
C
Fbdim
Db
Fm

all I'd want you to know.
Db
Dbdim
Fbdim

If I loved you,
Db
Faug

words wouldn't come in an easy way.
Ebm
Fbdim
Db
Faug

Round in circles I'd go
Bbm
Eb
Ebm

Longing to tell you, but afraid and shy
Db
Ebm

I'd let my golden chances
Cb
Cbaug
Eb
Ab

pass me by
Db
Dbdim

Soon you'd leave me
Fbdim
Db

Off you would go
Faug

in the mis t of day
Ebm
C
Db
Fm
Db
Fm

Never, never will I
Gb
Ebm

I loved you
Ab
Db
Dbdim
Fbdim

If I love you.
Db

Well, anyway, you don't
Faug

love me.
Ebm

That's what you said, wasn't it?
Fbdim
Ab
Db

Yes. I can smell them.
Fm
Db

Can you? What?
Fm

The blossoms,
Gb
F
Ebm
Ab
G

the wind brings them down.

C

Ain't much wind tonight, hardly any.

You can't hear a sound,

not the turn of a leaf,

Nor the fall of a wave
Cb
Cbm

hittin' the sand.
Em
Am
C

The tides creepin' up on the
F
Adim

beach like a thief,
A
D

Afraid to be caught stealin' the land.
G
C

On a night like this
G
Cb
C
Am

I start to wonder what life is
G
D
G

all about and I always say
C
Cb
E
Am

two heads are better than one to figure it out
D

I don't need you or anyone to help me
G

I got it figured out for myself

we ain't important

what are we
C

a couple of specks of nothing

look up there

there's a hell of a lot of stars in the sky
F
Adim
Cb

And the sky so big the sea looks small
Em
C
F
Adim

And two little people, you and I
G
Fm
G

We don't count at all
C
F

You're a funny kid
C

Don't ever remember meet another girl like you.
Eb
Ebm

You! Are you trying to get me to marry you?
C

Oh, no.

Well, then what's put it into my head?

Eh, you're different, all right.

Can't think what it is.
D
Dm
F

You look up at me with that little kid face.
Db

Like you trusted me.
C

I wonder what it'd be like.

What? Nothing.

I know what it'd be like.
Fm

It'd be awful.
Db

I can just see myself
Ab
Fm
Ab

Kinda scrawny and pale
Db
Ab

Picking at my food

And lovesick like any other guy
G

I'd throw away my sweater
G

And dress up like a dude
D

In a dickie and a collar and a tie
D
G
Eb

If I loved you

But you don't.
Ebm

No, I don't.
Eb
Ab

But somehow I can see
Db
Gb
Db

just exactly how I'd be
Ab
Db
Fbdim

if I loved you.
Fm
Db

Time and again,
Faug
Cb
Ebm
C
Db
Fm
Db
Fbdim

I would try to say all I'd want you to know, if I loved you,
Fm
Db
Faug

words wouldn't come in an easy way.
Ebm
Fbdim
C
Fbdim
Db
Faug

Round in circles I'd go
Bbm
Ebm

Longing to tell you but afraid and shy
Db
Ebm
Cb
Eb
Ab

I'd let my golden chances pass me by
Db
Fbdim

Soon you'd leave me,
Db
Faug
Ebm
C
Fbdim

off you would go in the mist of day, never, never to know,
Db
Fm
Db
Fm
Gb
Ebm
Ab

how I loved you, if I
Db
Db

loved you.

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Chords
  • Em

  • Am

  • D

  • G

  • Ab

    4
  • Eb

    6
  • Cb

    2
  • Bbm

  • Db

    4
  • F

  • Gb

    2
  • Fm

  • Bbsus4

  • Bb

  • Dbdim

    4
  • Fbdim

  • Faug

  • Ebm

    6
  • C

  • Cbaug

  • Cbm

    2
  • Adim

  • A

  • E

  • Dm

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