FIRST GIRL I LOVED
(Robin Williamson)

First girl I loved
Time has come I will sing you this sad goodbye song
When I was seventeen,
I used to know you
Well I haven't seen you now
Since many's the short year
And the last time I seen you
You said you'd joined the church of Jesus
But me I remember your long red hair
Falling in our faces as I kissed you
   Well I want you to know, just had to grow
   Want you to know, I just had to go
   And your probably married now
   House and car and all
   And you turned into a grown-up female stranger
   And if I was lying near you now
   I wouldn't be here at all

Well, we parted so hard
Me, rushing round Britain with a guitar
Making love to people
That I didn't even like to see
Well, I would think of you
Yes I mean in the sick sad morning
And in the lonely mid-night
Try to hold your face before me
   Well I want you to know, just had to grow
   Want you to know, I just had to go
   And your probably married now
   Kids and all
   And you turned into a grown-up female stranger
   And if I was lying near you now
   I'd just have to fall

Well, I never slept with you
Though we must have made love a thousand times
For we were just young,
Didn't have no place to go
But in the wide hills
And beside many a long water
You have gathered flowers
And they do not smell for me
   Well I want you to know, just had to grow
   Want you to know, I just had to go
   And your probably married now
   House and car and all
   And you turned into a grown-up female stranger
   And if I was lying near you now
   I wouldn't be here at all