"The Truth Of My Life In Songs..."

I've often thought that much of my life could be set to music... And if so, this would be one of the songs on the soundtrack of my life...

This is the track that would play on those gentle Sunday mornings as we lay in each other's arms...

I never sang to him, but if I had, this might have been the song.

"If Ever I Would Leave You"

Performed by Aretha Franklin

If ever I would leave you

It wouldn't be in summer.

Seeing you in summer

I never would go.

Your hair streaked with sunlight,

Your arms red as flame,

Your face with a lustre

That puts gold to shame!

And if I'd ever leave you,

It couldn't be in autumn.

Just how I'd leave in autumn

I never, never would know.

I've seen how you sparkle

When fall nips the air.

I know you in autumn

And I must be there.

Or would I leave you

Running merrily, merrily, merrily through the snow?

Or on a wintry evening

When you catch the fire's glow?

If ever I would leave you,

It wouldn't be in springtime?

Knowing how in springtime I'm bewitched by you so?

Oh, no, no! not in springtime!

Summer, winter or fall!

If ever, ever I would leave you at all!

Songwriters: Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe

If Ever I Would Leave You lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc