If I could be with you, I'd love you strong,

If I could be with you, I'd love ya long,

. . . want ya to know, I wouldn't go,

until I told ya honey why I love ya so!

If I could be with you, one hour tonight,

If I was free to do the things that I might,

I'm tellin' ya true, I'd be anythin' but blue,

If I could be with you, for just an hour,

If I could be with you!

If I could be with you, I'd love you strong,

If I could be with you, I'd love ya long,

I want ya to know, I wouldn't go,

until I told ya honey why I love ya so!

If I could be with you, one hour tonight,

If I was free to do the things I might,

I'm tellin' ya true, I'd be anythin' but blue,

If I could be with you, for just an hour,

If I could be with you!

Music by Jimmy Johnson

and lyrics by Henry Creamer , 1930