First Conditional - Real Possibility
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths
If - Joni Mitchell (This is Rudyard Kipling's poem set to music, to read the original poem click here http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_if.htm )
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
What If We Give It Away? - REM
Second Conditional - Unreal Present
If (I was your woman, the things I'd do to you) - Janet Jackson
If She Knew What She Wants (He'd be giving it to her) - The Bangles
If I Was Your Girlfriend - Prince
If Everybody Looked the Same (We'd get tired of looking at each other) - Groove Armada
Modals
Note the use of modal verbs in the conditional clause in the following songs:
If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
If You Could Read My Mind - Johnny Cash
(also note the use of as long as to introduce a conditional structure in this song)
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