If I Loved You

Say, tell me somethin'

Hm?

Ain't ya scared of me?

I ain't scared

Hey your name, Julie, Julie somethin'

Julie Jordan

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You're a queer one, Julie Jordan

Ain't ya sorry that you didn't run away?

You can still go if you wanna

I reckon that I care to choose to stay

You couldn't take my money if I didn't have any

And I don't have a penny, that's true

And if I did have money, you couldn't take any

'Cause you'd ask and I'd give it to you

You're a queer one, Julie Jordan

Ain't ya ever had a fella you give money to?

No

Ain't ya ever had a fella at all?

No

Well ya must've had a fella you went walkin' with

Yes

Where'd you walk?

Nowhere special I recall

In the woods (No)

On the beach (No)

Did you love him

No, never loved no one, I told you that

I'm never gonna marry, if I was gonna marry

I wouldn't have to be such a stickler

But I'm never gonna marry, and a girl who don't marry's got to be much more particular

Suppose I was to say to you that I'd marry you

You wouldn't marry anyone like me, would you?

Yes I would, if I loved you

It wouldn't make any difference what you-

Even if I died for it

How do you know what you'd do if you loved me

How you'd feel or anything?

I don't know how I know

Huh

Tis the same, I know how I, how it'd be if I loved you

When I worked in the mill, weaving at the loof

I'd gaze absentminded at the roof

And half the time the shuttle would tangle in the threads

And the walk would get mixed with the woof

If I loved you

But you don't

No I don't

But somehow I can see

Just exactly how I'd be

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 and shy

I'd let my golden chances pass me by

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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

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I can smell 'em, can you?

The blossoms, their wind brings them down

Ain't much wind tonight

Hm?

Hardly any

You can't hear a sound, not the turn of a leaf

Nor the fall of a wave hitting the sand

The tides creeping up on the beach like a thief

Afraid to be caught stealing the land

On a night like this, I start to wonder

What life is all about

And I always say two heads are better than one to figure it out

I don't need you or anyone to help me

I've got to figure it out for myself

We ain't important, what are we?

A couple of specks of nothing

Look up there

There's a hell of a lot of stars in the sky

And the sky's so big, the sea looks small

And two little people, you and I

We don't count at all

You're different alright, don't know what it is

You look up at me with that little kid face like you

Like you trusted me

I wonder what it'd be like

What?

Nothing, I know what it'd be like

It'll be awful, I can just see myself

Kinda scrawny and frail and picking at my food

And lovesick like any other guy

I'd throw away my sweater and dress up like a dude

In a Dickey and a collar and a tie

If I loved you

But you don't

No, I don't

But somehow I can see

Just exactly how I'd be

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 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

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I'm not a fella to marry anybody

Even if a girl was foolish enough to want me to

I wouldn't

Don't worry about it, Billy

Who's worried?

You're right, about there being no wind

Blossoms are just coming down by themselves

Just their time to, I reckon