IF YOU WERE MINE
by Cy Cobin
(Recorded May 31, 1955)


Count the raindrops in a rainstorm
Count the leaves upon a tree
Count the stars up in the heavens
Count the fish down in the sea
Add them all together, and here’s what you would find
They’d be equal to the kisses you would get if you were mine

If you were mine, mine, mine, if you were only mine
I would love you more than you've ever been loved before

Count the times the sun has risen
Since the day the world began
Find a beach beside the ocean
Count the little grains of sand
Add them both together, and here’s what you would find
They'd be equal to the "I love you"s you'd hear if you were mine

If you were mine, mine, mine, If you were only mine
I would love you more than you've ever been loved before

Take a child’s love for it’s mother
It’s a love that never ends
Take a brother's love for brother
Or the love of man's best friend
Put them all together and here’s what you would find
They'd be equal to the love I'd have for you if you were mine

If you were mine, mine, mine, If you were only mine,
I would love you more than you've ever been loved before

Take the happiness of someone
Who has won the jackpot prize
Take the happiness of children
When their birthday gifts arrive
Add that happiness together and here’s what you would find
It's just equal to the love I'd know if you were only mine


Submitted by Kate Smyth and Steve Purvey

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