I Love You So Much It Hurts

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"I Love You So Much It Hurts"
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Single by Floyd Tillman
B-side "I'll Take What I Can Get"
Released1948 (1948)
Genre Folk
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Floyd Tillman
Floyd Tillman singles chronology
"Drivin' Nails in My Coffin"
(1946)
"I Love You So Much It Hurts"
(1948)
"Please Don't Pass Me By"
(1949)

"I Love You So Much It Hurts" is a song written and recorded by Floyd Tillman in 1948. His version reached number 6 on the Folk Best Seller charts and spent a total of nineteen weeks on the chart. [1]

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