Lyr Req: Long, Long Time (from Linda Ronstadt)

Subject: Long, Long Time
From: GUEST,Gern
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:35 AM

Surprised I couldn't find this one here: an early Linda Ronstadt torch song, beginning "Love will survive..." Anybody know these words?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Long, Long Time
From: IanC
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 10:00 AM

It's here. Sorry, I haven't got time to post it and do all the line ends!

Cheers!

Subject: Lyr Add: LONG, LONG TIME (sung by Linda Ronstadt)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Mar 02 - 09:49 AM

Copied from http://www.theguitarguy.com/longlong.htm

LONG, LONG TIME
Words & Music by Gary White
Recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies, 1970

D     E    F#m   D      E        A
  Love will abide. Take things in stride.    

D        E7        F#m               B7            E
  Sounds like good advice, but there's no one at my side;    

     D     E     F#m   D      E        A
  And time washes clean love's wounds unseen;    

   D   E7           F#m   F#m7      B7                 E7
  That's what someone told me, but I don't know what it means.    


  CHORUS:
         D    E7         A              F#m     F#m7     D
  Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine,    

       A        E     F#m      D        A     E    A
  And I think I'm gonna love you   for a long, long time.    

    

D      E      F#m     D       E         A
  Caught in my fears, blinking back the tears;    

    D    E7     F#m F#m7          B7           E
  I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near.    

    D E     F#m  D         E         A
  And I never drew   one response from you,    

 D       E7       F#m  F#m7  B7             E7
  All the while you fell over girls you never knew.    


  CHORUS    


  D    E       F#m D     E    A
  Wait for the day   you go away,    

 D       E7       F#m  F#m7        B7                E
  knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay;    

    D       E      F#m  D      E         A
  And life's full of loss,  who knows the cost,    

D      E7     F#m       F#m7       B7             E7
  Living in the mem - o - ry of the love that never was.    

        D        E        A              F#m      F#m7        D
  'Cause I've done    everything I know to try and change your mind,    

       A        E       F#m      F#m7      A      E   A    F#m
  And I think I'm   gonna miss you    for a long, long time.    


  CODA:
          D       E      A
  'Cause I've done everything I know    

    A7                 D - Dm7
  To try and make you mine,    

        A       E       F#m       D        A     E     A
  And I think I'm   gonna love you    for a long, long time.