Lyrics by: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II
Arranged By: Axel Stordahl
From the Album: Unheard, Vols. 1 & 2: 1942-1946
From the Film: Carousel
(1957)
Label: Columbia Records
Recorded: May 1, 1945
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<SPOKEN> "Thank you very much, ladies and
gentlemen. We'd, we'd like to dispense
with the-uh, it so
happens that we
just happen to have a couple of
arrangements along with us. And, uh, <Female fans squeal>
Remember, your elders
are sitting all around you.
<Fans laugh> We would like to,
uh, do, as one of our encores, a very
lovely song. This,
if we may digress for a minute,
is not from a motion picture-it is from a show called "Carousel",
it's
a very lovely
tune called "If I Loved
You." <One female squeals>
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
Longin' to tell you but, afraid
and 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
<brief instrumental>
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