first girl i loved

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first girl i loved-, time has come i will sing the sad goodbye song, when i was seventeen, i used to know you, and i haven't seen you now in so many years, and the last time i saw you, you said you joined the church of jesus, but me i remember your long red hair, falling in our faces as i kissed you, i just want you to know i just had to go, i just want you to know i just had to grow, and you're probably married now, with a house and car and all, and you turned into a grown-up female stranger, if i was lyin' by you now, i wouldn't be here at all, well we parted so hard, me rushing 'round new york with a guitar, making love to people i didn't even like to see, and i still sometimes think of you, as i lay here in the six at morning, and in the lonely midnight, i've got to hold your face before me, i just want you to know i just had to go, i just want you to know i just had to grow, and you're probably married now, with kids and all, and you turned into a grown-up female stranger, if i was lyin' by you now, i'd just have to fall, and i never slept with you, though we must have made love a thousand times, 'cause we were just young, didn't have no place to go, i just want you to know i just had to go, i just want you to know i just had to grow, so its goodbye first love, and i hope you're fine, i have a sweet woman, maybe someday she'll have babies by me, she's a true friend of mine