If I Didn't Love You Song Lyrics and Chords by Tanya Tucker
If I Didn't Love You
Recorded by Tanya Tucker
Written by Rafe VanHoy and Deborah Allen
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I can't believe it's really me telling you goodbye
I've run out of reasons to defend your alibi
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can't go on pretending everything is still okay
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Now I know the truth behind all the games you've played
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wouldn't be so hard for me to
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turn my heart
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away
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If I didn't
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love
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Looking back it's easy now for me to understand
Why you got so angry when I asked you where you'd been
You
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told me my suspicions were only jealousy
And you
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used the way I trusted you to make a fool of me
You
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closed my eyes to lies that I could
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never have be
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lieved
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If I didn't
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love
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Cause if I didn't
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love you I'd've walked away a long long time
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ago
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love you I never would have let you hurt me
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so
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Now the time has come for me to tell you that we're through
Leave this broken dream behind and go find someone new
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I could see that it would be as
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easy thing to
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do
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love
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love you I'd've walked away a long long time
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ago
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love you I never would have let you hurt me
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so
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love you if I didn't
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love
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love
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FAQ
Who sang the the song If I Didn't Love You?
- The song If I Didn't Love You was sang by Tanya Tucker.
Who is Tanya Tucker?
- Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits.
She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down", 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman", 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend", and 1992's "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane". Tucker's 2019 album While I'm Livin' won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and "Bring My Flowers Now" from that same album won Tucker a shared songwriting Grammy for Best Country Song.
