If I Loved You
Frank Sinatra
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
from the album The Unheard Frank Sinatra-Radio Rarities
1943-1949 Volume 3, Vintage Jazz Collection
CD VJC-1030-2
Introduced in the musical Carousel (1945) by Jon Raitt and Jan Clayton
This version was sung at the Hollywood Bowl in 1945
"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, Remember, your elders are sitting all around you. 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."
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
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
source: Robin Hood
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