Lyrics If I Loved You - Richard Rodgers

Say, tell me somethin'?
Ain't you scared of me?
I ain't scared!
Is that your name Julie, Julie... somethin'?
Julie Jordon.
You're a queer one, Julie Jordan,
Ain't you 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 an' I'd give it to you!
You're a queer one, Julie Jordan,
Have you ever had a fella you give money to?
No!

Billy
Ain't you ever had a fella at all?

Julie
No!

Billy
Well, you must have a fella you went walkin' with

Julie
Yes!

Billy
Where'd you walk?

Julie
Nowhere special I recall.

Billy
In the woods?

Julie
No!

Billy
On the beach?

Julie
No!

Billy
Did you love him?

Julie
No. Never loved no one; I told you that.

Billy
Well you're a funny kid!
You wanna go to into town and dance maybe or...?

Julie
No! I have to be careful!

Billy
Of what!

Julie
Of my character. You see, I'm never gonna marry.

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
Has got to be much more partic'lar

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

Julie
You!?!

Billy
Oh, that scares you, don't it?
You thinkin' of what that cop said.

Julie
No, I ain't, I don't pay no mind to what he said!

Billy
But you wouldn't marry anyone like me, would you?

Julie
Oh, yes I would!
If I loved you, it wouldn't make any difference what you'd-
Even if I died for it.

Billy
Well, how you know what you'd do if you loved me?
How you'd feel or anythin'?

I don't know how I know. Just the same I know how it'd be...
If I loved you.
When I work in the mill weaving at the loom
I gaze absent-minded at the roof
And half the time the shuttle get tangled in the threads
And the warp 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!
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.

Billy
Well, anyway, you don't love me.
That's what you said, wasn't it?

Julie
Yes.
I can smell 'em, can you?
Billy
What?
Julie
The blossoms. The wind brings 'em down!

Billy
Ain't much wind tonight... Hardly any.
You can't hear a sound, not the turn of a leaf
Nor the fall of a wave hittin' the sand.
The tide's creepin' up on the beach like a thief,
Afraid to be caught stealin' the land!
On a night like this I start to wonder
What life is all about.

Julie
And I always say two heads are better than one to
Figure it out.

Billy

I don't need you or anybody to help me.
I've got it figured out for myself.
We ain't not important. What are we?
A couple o' specks of nothin'.
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 a funny kid.
Don't remember meetin' another girl like you.
You! Are you tryin' to get me to marry you?

Julie
Oh, no!

Billy
Well then what's put it in my head, babe?
You're diff'rent, alright!
You have doped me with that little kid's face, right?
You've adjusted me!
I wonder what it'd be like...

Julie
What?

Billy
Nothin'.
No, I know what it'd be like.
It'd be awful! I can just see myself-

Kinda scrawny, and pale
Picking at my food,
And love-sick like any other guy.
I'd throw away my sweater, and dress up like a dude
In a dicky and a collar and a tie.
If I loved you.

Julie
But you don't!

Billy
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!
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.

Aha... I'm not the kinda fella to marry anybody!
No, even if a girl was foolish enough to want me to,
I wouldn't!

Julie
Don't worry about it, Billy!

Billy
Who's worried?

Julie
You were right about there bein' no wind.
The blossoms are comin' down by theirselves.
Just they're in time to, I reckon.