Holy Trinity High School Class of `73

1969-1973

"Song of the Day"

August 4, 2025

"If I Were Your Woman" is a song recorded by American family group
Gladys Knight & the Pips. Written by Pam Sawyer, Clay McMurray, and
Gloria Jones, it was released as a single in November 1970. It spent
one week at #1 on Billboard Magazine's Soul Singles chart in January
1971 and was also successful on their Hot 100 singles chart, peaking
at number 9. It would subsequently be included as the opening track
on their 1971 album of the same name.

If I Were Your Woman is the seventh studio album by American R&B
quartet Gladys Knight & the Pips, released in 1971 on Soul Records.
The LP peaked at #4 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums chart and #35
on the US Billboard 200.

Gladys Knight & the Pips were an American R&B, soul, and funk family
music group from Atlanta, Georgia, that remained active on the music
charts and performing circuit for over three decades starting from the
early 1950s. Starting out as simply The Pips in 1952, derived from
a cousin's nickname, the founding members were Gladys Knight,
brother Merald "Bubba" Knight, sister Brenda Knight and cousins
Eleanor Guest and William Guest. The group reached commercial
success after signing with Motown Records in 1966.

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If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight & the Pips (1970)

If I were your woman
And you were my man
You'd have no other woman
You'd be weak as a lamb
If you had the strength
To walk out that door
My love would over rule my sense
And I'd call you back for more

If I were your woman
(If you were my woman)
If I were your woman
(If you were my woman)
And you were my man

Yeah
She tears you down Darling
Says you're nothing at all
But I'll pick you up Darling
When she let's you fall
You're like a diamond
But she treats you like glass
Yet you beg her to love you
But me you don't ask

If I were your woman
(If you were my woman)
If I were your woman
(If you were my woman)
If I were your woman
(If you were my woman)
Here's what I'd do
I'd never no, no, no stop loving you
Yeah, Yeah

Life is so crazy
And love is unkind
Because she came first darling
Will she hang on your mind
You're a part of me
And you don't even know it
I'm what you need
But I'm too afraid to show it
Yeah, Yeah

If I were your woman
If you were my woman
If I were your woman
If you were my woman
If I were your woman
If you were my woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, no, no, no stop loving you

If I were your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, never stop loving you
If I were your woman
Your sweet lovin' woman
(If you were my woman)
If I were your woman
(If you were my woman)
If I were your woman
(If you were my woman)
you'd need no other woman...


Songwriters: Pam Sawyer, Clay McMurray, and Gloria Jones

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