If Ever I Would Leave You

Words & Music by Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Recorded by Robert Goulet, 1960
From the Broadway musical "Camelot"


C  Fdim Am7       Dm    D9  G     Dm7    Fdim    CM7     Am
If ever  I would leave you,   it wouldn't be in summer;

Dm     F     Dm7-5   G  Cdim  G   Am7   G/B  C   CM7   C7
Seeing you in sum - mer,  I  nev - er  would go --

     C7                 FM7      G       G/B  Em7     CM7   Am
Your hair streaked with sunlight,   your lips red as flame,

     F           Dm    Dm+7 Dm7            F  Gdim   Dm  Dm7  G   
Your face with a luster         that puts gold to  shame.


C  Fdim    Am7   Dm    D9  G     Dm7    Fdim    CM7     Am
But if I'd ever leave you,    it couldn't be in autumn;

Dm        F     Dm7-5   G  Cdim  G   Am7  G/B   C   CM7   C7
How I'd leave in au - tumn, I   nev - er  will know.

     C7            FM7      G      G/B  Em7     CM7   Am
I've seen how you sparkle     when fall nips the air;

  F           Dm    Dm+7 Dm7        F   G    C   Dm7   G
I know you in autumn         and I must be there.


Bridge:

             E         C#m7   A        B7          E
And could I leave you running merrily through the snow?

         G#          Bbm7          F#m7              B7    G7
Or on a wintry evening    when you catch the fire's glow?


C  Em7  Am7       Dm   D9  G      Dm7    Fdim    CM7       Am
If ever I would leave you,   how could it be in springtime,

Dm       F     Dm7-5   G  Cdim  G       Am7 G/B  C   CM7   C7
Knowing how in spring I'm  be - witched by  you so?

    C7           FM7      Fm        Fdim       Am     Am+7  D7
Oh, no, not in springtime,  summer, winter, or fall --

   F              D9       G7 Fdim  C
No never could I leave you     at  all.



 
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