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If I Were a Carpenter (song)

"If I Were a Carpenter"
If I Were a Carpenter Four Tops.jpg
Single by Four Tops
from the album Reach Out
B-side "Wonderful Baby"
Released 1968
Format 7" single
Genre Folk, soul
Length 2:47
Label Motown
M 1124
Writer(s) Tim Hardin
Producer(s) Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Four Tops singles chronology
"Yesterday's Dreams"
(1968)
"If I Were a Carpenter"
(1968)
"Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me"
(1968)

"If I Were a Carpenter" is a song written by Tim Hardin. Hardin's own recording of the piece appeared on his 1967 album Tim Hardin 2. It was one of two songs from that release (the other being "'Misty Roses") performed by Hardin at in 1969. The song has been covered a number of times by other artists:



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