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!

Longing to tell you

But afraid an' 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 love you

If I loved you!

Music by Richard Rodgers

with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II 1945