First Girl I Loved

[00:21.21] First girl I loved
[00:24.98] Time has come I will sing you
[00:26.60] this sad goodbye song
[00:28.75] When I was seventeen, I used to know you.
[00:36.35] Well, I haven't seen you, now, since many is the short year
[00:44.25] And the last time I seen you, you said you'd joined the
[00:47.25] Church of Jesus.
[00:48.88] But me, I remember your long red hair falling in our faces
[00:54.52] As I kissed you.
[00:59.32] Well, I want you to know, we just had to grow
[01:09.43] I want you to know, I just had to go.
[01:17.08] And you're probably married now, house and car and all
[01:24.73] And you turned into a grownup, female, stranger.
[01:33.30] And if I was lying near you now
[01:36.22] I probably wouldn't be here at all.
[01:45.53] Well, we parted so hard
[01:49.78] Me, rushing round Britain with a guitar
[01:53.87] Making love to people
[01:57.85] That I didn't even like to see.
[02:05.79] Well, I would think of you.
[02:09.84] Yes, I mean in the six sad morning.
[02:14.17] And in the lonely midnight
[02:18.16] Try to hold your face before me.
[02:24.25] Well, I want you to know, I just had to go
[02:32.13] I want you to know, we just had to grow.
[02:39.95] And you're probably married now, kids and all
[02:48.04] And you turned into a grownup, female, stranger.
[02:56.50] And if I was lying near you now
[02:59.26] I'd just have to fall.
[03:08.97] Well, I never slept with you
[03:13.31] Though we must have made love a thousand times.
[03:17.18] For we were just young, didn't have no place to go
[03:29.25] But in the wide hills and beside many a long water
[03:37.61] You have gathered flowers, and they do not smell for me.
[03:47.33] Well, I want you to know, I just had to go.
[03:55.51] I want you to know, we just had to grow.
[04:03.17] So it's goodbye first love, and I hope you're fine.
[04:11.59] Well, I have a sweet woman
[04:17.39] Maybe some day to have babies by me
[04:21.69] she's pretty
[04:24.42] Is a true friend of mine.
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