LYRICS: If I Loved You

Album:

In a Private Moment

Lyrics / Music:

Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II, 1945

Catalog number:

74321 72666 2

Recording date:

November 1960

Release date:

December 1999

Observation:

- Recorded at Elvis' home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California

- The song is part of the musical "Carousel", by Rodgers and Hammerstein

- A second home recording was made in the same place in February 1966and released on "The Home Recordings" (1999)

- Both versions were re-released on "Back in Living Stereo - The Essential 1960-62 Masters, Rare Outtakes & Home Recordings" (MRS, 2019)

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LYRICS

If I loved you

Time and time 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 loved you

If I loved you