«If I Had You» is a song written by Kerry Chater and Danny Mayo, and recorded by American country music group Alabama. It was released in February 1989 as the second single from the album Southern Star. The song was Alabama’s twenty-fifth number one on the country chart. The single went number one for one week and spent thirteen weeks on the country chart.
The song was covered by Andy Williams on his 1991 album Nashville and Eddy Arnold on his 1993 album Last of the Love Song Singers: Then and Now.
From the album Southern Star
B-side «I Showed Her»
Released February 13, 1989
Genre Country
Length 3:35
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Danny Mayo Kerry Chater
Producer(s) Alabama Barry Beckett
Alabama – If I Had You Lyrics
If I had you we’d run like gypsies in the wind
We’d be lovers, we’d be friends,
Oh, if I had you.
If I had you, we’d count the stars all one by one
We’d make love ‘til they were gone
Oh, if I had you/
‘Cause you light a fire way down in my soul
The flame keeps growin stronger there ain’t no control
And there’s nothing, no there’s nothing, no there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
If I had you.
If I had you, we’d sail the 7 seas as one
We’d never say «It can’t be done»
No, if I had you.
‘Cause you light a fire way down in my soul
The flame keeps growing stronger ‘cause there aint no control
And theres nothing, no there’s nothing, I know there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
If I had you…
