If I Loved You lyrics

<spoken> thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. we’d, we’d like to dispense with the-uh, it soHappens that weJust happen to have a couple of arrangements along with us. and, uh, <female fans squeal>Remember, your eldersAre sitting all around you. <fans laugh> we would like to, uh, do, as one of our encores, a veryLovely song. this,If we may digress for a minute, is not from a motion picture-it is from a show called carousel, it’sA very lovelyTune called if I loved you. <one female squeals>If I loved you, time and again I would try to sayAll I’d want you to knowIf I loved you, words wouldn’t come in an easy way`round in circles I’d goLongin’ to tell you but, afraid and shy,I’d let my golden chances pass me bySoon you’d leave me, off you would go in the mist of dayNever, never to knowHow I love you, if I loved you<brief instrumental>Soon you’d leave me, off you would go in the mist of dayNever, never to knowHow I love you, if I loved you
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