Jackson Browne First Girl I Loved
(feat David Lindley) Lyrics

First Girl I Loved
(feat David Lindley) Lyrics

(Robin Williamson)

[From the album "Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th
Anniversary"]



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
pretty)

She's a true friend of mine