If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)

(Writers: H. Banks / R. Jackson / C. Hampton)
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.)