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"If Only"
("Oh, Jenny")


		Oh Jenny,
		I miss you
		A little more every day.
		Oh Jenny,
		I miss you
		A lot more every year.
		
		The good-bye's 
		get harder
		each time,
		and always
		the words run
		through my mind...
		
		If Only...
		If Only...
		If Only...
		
		Oh Jenny,
		I hear your name
		and I have to smile
		and think of
		the years that
		have gone by...
		when you were still 
		just a child...
		
		You told me 
		You'd love
		All ways.
		
		Oh Jenny,
		When I see you,
		my arms reach out on their own
		to touch you
		to hold you...
		Oh Jenny.
		
		Oh Jenny,
		I miss you
		a little more every way.
		Oh Jenny,
		I miss you
		I'm not right unless you're near.
		
		Oh Jenny,
		you phone me
		and we talk for a while.
		You tell me
		about all the things
		that are gone wrong
		in your life.
		Oh and how I wish 
		I could take you away
		from all that,
		And I could too...
		If only.
		
		The good times 
		get harder
		to find,
		and always
		the words run
		through my mind...
		
		If Only...
		If Only...
		If Only...
		
		Oh Jenny,
		When you hold me,
		I hear the cries of my soul...
		
		If Only...
		If Only...
		If Only...
		
		Oh Jenny,
		you phone me
		and touch me across the miles.
		But all that
		I hear are the voices
		in my head...
		saying over and over again...
		
		If Only...
		If Only...
		If only.
		
- Christopher Cooney
Copyright 1996, all rights reserved.
This is a song with a melody but no accompaniment.
This version slightly revised in 2005.
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