If You Knew My Story
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack * Track #1 On Bright Star (Original Broadway Cast)
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Album Bright Star (Original Broadway Cast)
- #1If You Knew My Story
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack
- #2She’s Gone
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Stephen Bogardus & A. J. Shively
- #3Bright Star
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & A. J. Shively
- #4Way Back in the Day
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack
- #5Whoa, Mama
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack & Paul Alexander Nolan
- #6Firmer Hand / Do Right
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack & Dee Hoty & Stephen Lee Anderson
- #7A Man’s Gotta Do
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Paul Alexander Nolan & Michael Mulheren
- #8Asheville
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Hannah Elless
- #9What Could Be Better
Carmen Cusack, Paul Alexander Nolan & Bright Star Original Broadway Ensemble
- #10I Can’t Wait
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Paul Alexander Nolan & Carmen Cusack
- #11Please Don’t Take Him
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & William Youmans & Dee Hoty & Stephen Lee Anderson & Michael Mulheren & Carmen Cusack
- #12A Man’s Gotta Do (Reprise)
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Michael Mulheren
- #13Sun is Gonna Shine
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack
- #14Heartbreaker
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Paul Alexander Nolan
- #15Another Round
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & A. J. Shively & Jeff Blumenkrantz & Emily Padgett
- #16I Had a Vision
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Paul Alexander Nolan & Carmen Cusack
- #17Always Will
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Hannah Elless & A. J. Shively
- #18So Familiar
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack
- #19At Long Last
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell & Carmen Cusack
- #20Finale
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
- #21Bright Star (Reprise)
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
If You Knew My Story by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell (Ft. Carmen Cusack)
Performed by
Steve Martin & Edie BrickellCarmen CusackAbout
Alice Murphy opens the musical with this number. It foreshadows the actions of the play, which happened mostly in the past. The play takes place simultaneously in 1924 and in 1946. Alice Murphy is the center of the ‘24 storyline, which takes place in a small hillbilly town, while Billy Cane is the p...
If You Knew My Story Lyrics
[Alice]
If you knew my story you’d have a hard time
Believing me, you’d think I was lying
Joy and sorrow never last
I’ll die trying not to live in the past
If you knew my story
My heaven and my hell
If you knew my story
You’d have a good story to tell
I left my clothes on that cold river rock
My cares and my woes rolled up in my socks
I lay down in that mountain stream
And the icy water rushed over me
If you knew my story
My heaven and my hell
If you knew my story
You’d have a good story to tell
Me I’m not alone
Tell me I’m not alone
Many backs have broken from lesser weight I know
I was born to carry more than I can hold
Even though I’ll stumble
Even though I’ll fall
You’ll never see me crumble
You’ll never see me crawl
If you knew my story
Drew water from the well
If you knew my story
You’d have a good story to tell
Me I’m not alone
Tell me I’m not alone
Even though I’ll stumble
Even though I’ll fall
You’ll never see me crumble
You’ll never see me crawl
If you knew my story
If You Knew My Story Q&A
Who wrote If You Knew My Story's ?
If You Knew My Story was written by Steve Martin & Edie Brickell.