First Girl I Loved (LP Version)

First Girl I Loved -The 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

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 probably 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