If I Loved You

Late February 2026

If I Loved You

Music by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

If I loved you

Time and again

I would try to say

All I 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 foolish 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.

If I loved you,

Time and again

I would try to say

All I’d want you to know.

If I loved you,

Words would not 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 would leave me

Off

You would go

In the mist of day,

Never, never to know

How I loved you

If I loved you.