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F Fm7 Cm7 D/A Bb/F Bdim Bbsus2 F Riff


[Verse]
F             Fm7
First girl I loved
          Cm7                      D/A
Time has come I will sing the sad goodbye song
Bb/F            Bdim    Bbsus2        F   Riff
When I was seventeen, I used to know you
F                                     Fm7
And I haven't seen you now in so many years
Cm7
And the last time I seen you
                                    D/A
You said you joined the Church of Jesus
     Bb/F                         Bdim
But me I remember your long red hair
Bbsus2                            F   Riff
Falling in our faces as I kissed you
                           G         F   g g g g g a a# g f
I just want you to know I just had to go
                           G         F   g g g g g a a# g f
I just want you to know I just had to grow
F                    Bb      F
And you're probably married now
G                          C
With a house and car and all
F                Gm7     Bb                G
And you turned into a grown-up female stranger
F                       C                         F  riff
If I was lyin' by you now, I wouldn't be here at all
F                   Fm7
Well we parted so hard
     Cm7                            D/A
Me rushing 'round New York with a guitar
Bb/F             Bdim                Bbsus2   F riff
Making love to people I didn't even like to see
F                               Fm7
And I still sometimes think of you
         Cm7                  D/A
As I lay here in the six at morning
Bb/F               Bdim
And in the lonely midnight
Bbsus2                             F riff
I've got to hold your face before me
                           G           F g g g g g a a# g f
I just want you to know I just had to go
                           G           F g g g g g a a# g f
I just want you to know I just had to grow
F                      Bb    F
And you're probably married now
   G            C
With kids and all
F                 Gm7    Bb                 G
And you turned into a grown-up female stranger
F                        C                    F
If I was lyin' by you now, I'd just have to fall
F                      Fm7
And I never slept with you
Cm7                                         D/A
Though we must have made love a thousand times
Bb/F                Bdim
'Cause we were just young
Bbsus2                  F
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
F                Bb      F
So its goodbye, first love
       G           C
And I hope you're fine
F                G
I have a sweet woman
        Bb                         G
Maybe someday she'll have babies by me
 F
(She pretty)
C                        F
She's a true friend of mine