Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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A popular song from 1905
Words and music by Cobb and Edwards

Sung by Laurence Rubenstein
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne

Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
sheetmusicsinger.com/if-a-girl-like-you-loved-a-boy-like-me

Lyrics

1. The time ’tis of haying
Two lovers are straying
Thro’ sweet love land
Two lips with love meeting
Two hearts with love beating
To beat the band
The boy has grown silent, the girl wonders why
He turns to the girl with a sigh
And soft he replies
When she asks why he sighs
“I am thinking my dear
Only thinking my dear

CHORUS
If a girl like you, loved a boy like me
Like a girl like you could love
If she cared to care, and he dared to dare
What a happy pair they’d be
If a girl like you, loved a boy like me
And the girl like you, was you
I tell you what, I’d give a whole lot
If the boy was me”

2. The time ’tis in June time
Birds singing in tune time
And June time brings
Each day a new wedding
And under this heading
Comes rings and things
A boy and a girl we have oft met before
Are not coming out a church door
For the boy dared to dare
And the girl cared to care
When he whispered so low
In the first verse you know

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