IF THOU MUST LOVE ME (slow version) WORDS & MUSIC:   Earl P. Reinhalter CHORUS: if thou must love me, if thou must love me, if thou must love me, just love me. /// REPEAT CHORUS /// I. don't say you love me for my smile. I can't be smiling all the while. don't say you love me for my eyes. when I'm asleep, your love will fly. /// REPEAT CHORUS /// II. don't say you love my train of thought. what if the rail should come unwrought? don't say my touch is your desire. when I'm away, where goes the fire? oh-------- III. don't say you want to mother me. when I grow up, you will flee. don't say you need me to lean on. you will leave me when you're strong. /// REPEAT CHORUS (twice) /// ENDING: love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. © Copyright 1985 Earl P. Reinhalter.   All Rights Reserved. The title and basic concept are from the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: . IF THOU MUST LOVE ME If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, "I love her for her smile--her look--her way Of speaking gently--for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"-- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,-- A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayest love on, through love's eternity.