If I Could Be With You

If I Could Be With You
music & lyric by Henry Creamer & James P. Johnson (left)

I'm so blue, I don't know what to do.
All day through I'm pining just for you.
I did wrong when I let you go away,
For now I grieve about you night and day.
I'm unhappy and dissatisfied, but I'd be happy if I had you by my side...

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

If I could be with you one hour tonight, if I were free to do the things I might,
I'm telling you true, I'd be anything but blue, if I could be with you.

All dressed up but still nowhere to go,
How I wish that I could see a show, but here I wait with no one to call me dear.
The one I love so many miles from here.
Central, give me one-two-three-four-jay.
Oh, won't you listen, little sweetie, while I say:

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

If I could be with you one hour tonight.
If I was free to do the things I might.
I'm telling you true, I'd be anything but blue, if I could be with you...