The First Girl I Loved (2010 Remaster)

First Girl I Loved - Incredible String Band

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 is the

Short year

And the last time I seen 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 we just had to

Grow

I want you to know I just had to go

And you're probably

Married now

House and car and all

And you turned into

A grownup 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 six sad morning

And in the lonely midnight

Try to hold your face before me

Well I want you to know I just had to

Go

I want you to know we just had to grow

And you're probably

Married now

Kids

And all

And you turned into

A grownup 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 I just had to

Go

I want you to know we just had to grow

So it's goodbye

First love

And I hope

You're fine

Well I have a sweet woman

Maybe some day to have babies by me

She's pretty

Is a true friend of mine