If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right

If loving you is wrong...

I don't want to be right

If being right means living without you

I'd rather live wrong than right

My Mama and Daddy say "It's a shame..."

"It's a downright disgrace"

But as long as I've got you by my side

I don't care what my people say

My friends tell me there's no future

In lovin' a married man

If I can't see you when I want...

I'll see you when I can

Bridge:

If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right

If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right

Am I wrong to fall

So deeply in love with you...

Knowing you've got a wife and two little children

Depending on you too

Am I wrong to hunger

For the gentleness of your touch...

Knowing you've got someone else at home

Who needs you just as much

Chorus:

Am I wrong to give my love

To a married man?

Am I wrong for trying to hold on

To the best thing I've ever had?

If loving you is wrong...I don't want to be right

If loving you is wrong...I don't want to be right

Repeat Chorus:

I don't want to be right...if it means living without you

I don't want to be right...if it means sleeping alone at night

I don't want to be right

If loving you is wrong...I don't want to be right

If loving you is wrong...No, I don't want to be right

(Country # 1 / Chart Debut 2/17/79 / 1979 MCA Records, Inc.)