First Girl I Loved Lyrics - Jackson Browne

(from the album Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary; performed by Jackson Browne with David Lindley) 

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 

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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 sick sad 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 

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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