I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song - Jim Croce (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song (Jim Croce, 1974). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-03-21. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song," written by Jim Croce, was Croce's last top 10 hit hitting the no. 9 position in 1974 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (Whitburn, 2013) and no 67 on the Billboard Top Country Singles' chart (Whitburn, 1994). Croce died in a plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana, September 20, 1973 (biography, 2020); "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song" was released posthumously, seven months after his death (songfacts, 2023). How the song came to be was explained by Jim's wife, Ingrid. "After a year and a half of his working so very hard on the road, we were barely making ends meet, but Jim wouldn't talk about it. He hated questions as much as he hated confrontation, especially about money. He stormed out of our bedroom and went down to the kitchen table to brood. The next morning he woke me gently by singing his new song. 'Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong. So I'll have to say I love you, in a song'" (I. Croce, Thyme In A Bottle, 1996).

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Lyrics:

Well, I know it's kind of late
I hope I didn't wake you
But what I got to say can't wait
I know you'd understand
Every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song

Yeah, I know it's kind of strange
Every time I'm near you
I just run out of things to say
I know you'd understand
Every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song

Every time the time was right
All the words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song

Yeah, I know it's kind of late
I hope I didn't wake you
But there's something that I just got to say
I know you'd understand
Every time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I"ll have to say I love you in a song