If I Loved You (Introduced by Lanza) - Mario Lanza

«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