The spacemenSpacemen 3's song "walking with Jesus" begins by "I walked with Jesus and he would say", would
I walked with Jesus and he would say
"Oh you poor child, you ain't coming to me, no way
You found heaven on Earth, gonna burn for your sin"
But I think I'll be in good company down there with all my friends
Would is obviously used as a conditional ,so so it should be if"if I walked with Jesus SoJesus". So why If "if" was it omitted?