"If I Loved You" is a song featured in the 1956 film Carousel with music composed by Richard Rodgers and lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. The song is a duet between the two main characters, who express their feelings for each other in a hypothetical way, as they are too shy to admit their love directly. Tacitly, Julie Jordan (Shirley Jones) and Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) understand they do not belong together, but a simple, hypothetical, conditional conversation opens them up to the realization that a genuine bond exists between them. As blossoms fall, this song ends with a passionate embrace.
Lyrics[]
Julie:
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
Billy:
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 figger it out.
Billy:
There's a helluva lot o' 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.
Kinda scrawny and pale, pickin' 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 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:
Julie! Julie!
Longing to tell you
But afraid and shy
I let my golden chances
Pass me by
Now I've lost
Soon I will go in the mist of day
And you never will know
How I loved
How I loved you
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