Words & Music:
Gerald Nelson
The sandman comes to my house late each night
But it's way in the morning before he turns out my life
It's times like this my darling I can see
If I were you I'd know that I love me
The great snowman I've been called by all
But it looks like this time I'm gonna fall
It's times like this my darling I can see
Oooh If I were you I'd know that I love me
Wind and rain and storm closin' in on me
I've walked the streets alone with my self sympathy
Can you hear me saying hopefully
Oooh If I were you I'd know that I love me
Wind and rain and storm closin' in on me
I've walked the streets alone with my self sympathy
Can you hear me saying hopefully
If I were you I'd know that I love me
Oooh If I were you I'd know that I love me
If I were you I'd know that I love me
Recordingdate: 1970/06/08, first released on: Love Letters from Elvis (album)
Musicians
Musicians who contributed to the first recording of If I Were You:
(guitar)
(guitar)
(guitar)
(guitar)
(bass)
(drums)
(piano)
(organ)
(organ)
(harmonica)
Others*
(percussion)
(french horn)
(trombone)
(trombone)
(trombone)
(trombone)
(trumpet)
(trumpet)
(trumpet)
(cello)
(cello)
(viola)
(viola)
(viola)
(viola)
(violin)
(violin)
(violin)
(violin)
(violin)
(violin)
*Orchestra, overdubs
Availability
Find available albums with If I Were You.
Good song from a mostly so-so LP. Nice performance.
A subdued ballad from the "Love Letters..." LP. It is a lot like the album, good; but not great. While this album was a poor follow-up to "That's The Way It Is" and "Elvis Country", I still enjoy listening to all of the songs on it except for "Cindy, Cindy".
Good ballad, well sung, and it flows along nicely. I know I sound like a broken record, but I much prefer Elvis as a balladeer when the songs are like this and not over blown, over produced songs like My Boy, etc.
I enjoy the hell outta the whole Love Letters album, even though it seems to be held in lower regard than many other of the 70s albums. It's an interesting thing to start collecting Elvis after he died, and therefore get the albums totally out of chronological order. I got this album in the midst of picking up a couple of lesser soundtrack albums, so this album seemed like quite a masterpiece to me at the time. This track in particular seemed pretty good, but not great. As I have gotten older, the song has grown on me and, sadly, this could almost be my theme song at the moment (I could have sung this to the girl I had coffee with last night.) Part of the longevity of Elvis is that he recorded so much and so much of it really was excellent, that there really is a track for every mood and feeling.
I must admit that even if LLFE was not up to par with the previous two albums, I still like it! And I prefer his ballad singing when his voice was in control. If I were You and I'll Never Know flows nicely with me. I even like This Is Our Dance which surprisingly hit well with some of my female friends who are into that kind of balladeering. The only song on this album that I don't prefer too much is the version of Love Letters. Here his vocal is more strained than on the beautiful 1966 delivery! And of course the Mojo jam was and still is a cracker!
Great record as is the whole album it was taken from.
Definately like this song, along with a few others from the spotty and underappreciated "Love Letters from Elvis" album.
I must admit that this song never registered positively with me until I had read the previous comments and decided to go back and play it a few times. The easy laid back approach which he excelled and the structure and melody of the song has now really grown on me.
On A Hundred Years From Now he starts the song with The Yellow Rose Of Texas. I think the song is beautifully done by Presley. A real "lost" gem.
A good song but on an album that is not up to par; a hodge lodge of a put together "fast buck" album and a couple of good songs get buried on it like this one which is a shame. One of the reasons I did not purchase any Elvis albums in the 1970's to be honest. What I have now from the 1970's is actually purchased FTD and bargain CD's.
While I am a huge fans of the 70s Elvis, this song is not on my radar screen. Even reading the lyrics, the tune escapes me.
In my opinion, this is surely the weakest song from the 11-song album "Love Letters from Elvis". I do think that this is a good song though and Elvis' rendition of it was outstanding. It's just nowhere near one of the best songs that Elvis recorded only in the studio in the 1970's. I can very easily understand why this song isn't well known.
fun song.l enjoy listening to it.Love 70's Elvis. Nice performance
A pleasant enough song on a mediocre album. I never bought the original album when it was released, (although I do have it now and the FTD release) because an album titled 'Love Letters' was enough to put me off. It wasn't what I wanted as a 17 year old, This track is well sung, but never on any of my playlists, but an enjoyable listen when I'm in the mood for it..
A fun and sentimental track that gets a little better with every listen.
I’m going against the grain here as I love this song. I also love the album and never understand why it’s so heavily disliked. To say it’s an album of leftovers is harsh. I don’t like
some songs on TTWII and Elvis Country. I don’t like Cindy Cindy or Got my mojo workin but that doesn’t mean it’s leftovers. Elvis puts his heart and soul into this song and the only reason I can’t give it 5 stars is because of the annoying repetitive piano trills.
Nice song, not great, but there are a lot worse, plus, I really like the Love Letters album, I play loads of times,
Prefer Gerald Nelson's version from his Songs I Wrote for Elvis album.
It's a pleasant song. Not bad at all.