I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song: Jim Croce
#1 Adult Contemp., #9 Hot 100 and #68 on Billboard 
Country Chart in 1974


[Intro]

        x2


[Verse 1]

         
Well, I know i

            
t's kind of la

           
te,   I hope I

        
 didn't wake y

ou.
              
But what I've 

         
got to say can

         
't wait,   I k

              
now you'd unde

 
rstand.


[Chorus]

             
  Every time I

           
 tried to tell

           
 you, the word

              
s just came ou

       
t wrong.
             
So, I'll have 

             
to say I love 

             
you, in a song

  
.


[Verse 2]

         
Yeah, I know i

            
t's kind of st

           
range,   every

          
 time I'm near

 you
         
I just run out

              
 of things to 

         
say,   I know 

           
you'd understa

nd.


[Chorus]

             
  Every time I

           
 tried to tell

           
 you, the word

              
s just came ou

       
t wrong.
             
So, I'll have 

             
to say I love 

             
you, in a song

  
.


[Interlude]

        x2


[Chorus]

             
  Every time t

           
he time was ri

             
ght, all the w

#            
ords just came

          
 out wrong.
         
So, I'll have 

             
to say I love 

             
you, in a song

  
.


[Verse 3]

         
Yeah, I know i

            
t's kind of la

           
te,   I hope I

        
 didn't wake y

ou.
            
But there's so

           
mething that I

             
 just got to s

#          
ay,   I know y

          
ou'd understan

d.


[Chorus]

             
  Every time I

           
 tried to tell

           
 you, the word

              
s just came ou

       
t wrong.
         
So, I'll have 

             
to say I love 

             
you, in a song

  
.


[Outro]

        x2




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