First Girl I Loved Lyrics - 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 

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, house and car and all 

And you turned into a grownup female stranger 

And if I was lying near you now 

I wouldn't be here at all 

We parted so hard 

Me, rushing round Britain with a guitar 

And making love to people 

I didn't even like to see 

I would think of you 

And I mean in the six sad morning 

And in the lonely midnight 

Try to hold your face before me 

I want you to know, I just had to go 

I want you to know, we just had to grow 

You're probably married now, kids and all 

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 

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 

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 

I have a sweet woman 

Maybe someday to bear babies by me, she's pretty 

Is a true friend of mine