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