For loving you (Country 1, 1967) (video)

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(For loving you, for needing you,

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but most of all for loving you. For loving you…)

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1. For loving you my life is so much richer,

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you've given so much to live for,

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and I never really lived before, before loving you.

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(For loving you…)

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2. And for loving you my faith is a little stronger,

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for a world that could give you to me

couldn't be as bad as it's made out to be.

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There was good there, I just could never see, before loving you.

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(For loving you, for needing you,

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but most of all for loving you. For needing you ….)

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3. And for needing you I feel a whole lot stronger,

for there's a strength that comes

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from knowing you need to give up yourself.

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And, darling, I gave so much of myself loving you.

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(For losing you ….)

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4. And now I'm losing you and I'm a sadder lonelier man

than I ever thought any man could be.

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But even in my loneliness, even as I walk

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the haunting trail of memory,

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even for all the pain that I'm feeling right now,

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never once will I ever regret

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having had the chance of loving you. (Loving you !)

(orig. = capo 1st) (Bill Anderson & Jan Howard)