The Paupers-If I Call You By Some Name

key e
rick shorter, 1966
the paupers

v1
if i call you by some name
that perhaps is not your name

will you try to understand
that i never had it planned

but at times my thoughts do slip
and her name comes to my lips

and i'll call you by some name
that perhaps is not your name

v2
if i look into your eyes
like they're someone else's eyes,

oh you need not sympathize,
but i wish you'd realize

that it's not been very long
since the one i loved's been gone,

if i look into your eyes,
like they're someone else's eyes.

(ooh-ooh-ooh)

v3
if i give you all my love
like i once gave all my love.

you can tell yourself at last
he's forgotten 'bout the past

and the thousand yesterdays
he'll no longer cross your ways

if i give you all my love
like i once gave all my love.
(ooh-ooh-ooh)

if i call you by some name
that perhaps-
is not your name.