If I could be with you, I'd love you strong,
If I could be with you, I'd love ya long,
. . . want ya to know, I wouldn't go,
until I told ya honey why I love ya so!

If I could be with you, one hour tonight,
If I was free to do the things that I might,
I'm tellin' ya true, I'd be anythin' but blue,
If I could be with you, for just an hour,
If I could be with you!

< instrumental break >

If I could be with you, I'd love you strong,
If I could be with you, I'd love ya long,
I want ya to know, I wouldn't go,
until I told ya honey why I love ya so!

If I could be with you, one hour tonight,
If I was free to do the things I might,
I'm tellin' ya true, I'd be anythin' but blue,
If I could be with you, for just an hour,
If I could be with you!

Music by Jimmy Johnson
and lyrics by Henry Creamer , 1930