2005
Because I Liked You Better
Composed by 
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie Text by 
A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman Here and Gone Song Collection
Because I Liked You Better is the sixth song from Jake Heggie's song cycle Here and Gone. The original text was written by A.E. Housman, a British author and poet.
Text
“Because I Liked You Better” by A.E. Housman
Because I liked you better
Than suits a man to say,
It irked you, and I promised
To throw the thought away.
To put the world between us
We parted, stiff and dry;
“Good-bye,” said you, “forget me.” ”
I will, no fear,” said I.
If here, where clover whitens
The dead man’s knoll, you pass,
And no tall flower to meet you
Starts in the trefoiled grass,
Halt by the headstone naming
The heart no longer stirred,
And say the lad that loved you
Was one that kept his word.
Records
2010
Passing By
Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, A. E. Housman, Vachel Lindsay, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sheet Music
Here and Gone
Heggie, Jake
The Farms of Home, In Praise of Songs that Die, Stars, The Factory Window Song, In the Morning, Because I Liked You Better, The Half-Moon Westers Low
Tenor and Baritone