If I Learned to Play the Violin

If I learned to play the violin

And I traded my old guitar in

Would your parents still object

Or would I win their respect

If I learned to play the violin?

I would even go and cut my hair

Though my friends would point and say I'm square

Girl, would your society

Still look down their nose at me

If I learned to play the violin?

I'd give up my beat-ways

Take up more discreet ways

All you've got to do is ask me to

Whoa-oa, just ask me to

And I'd learn to play the violin

Turn my back on everything I've been

I'd be like somebody new

But, not change my love for you

If I learned to play the violin

I'd give up my beat-ways

Take up more discreet ways

All you've got to do is ask me to

Whoa-oa, just ask me to

And I'd learn to play the violin

Yes, I'd learn to play the violin

And I'd learn to play the violin

Yes, I'd learn to play the violin