First Girl I Loved-Don Partridge

[00:20.75]First girl I loved [00:24.51]Time has come I will sing you this sad goodbye song [00:29.98]When I was seventeen I used to know you [00:40.35]I haven't seen you now since many is the long year [00:44.13]And the last time I seen you you said you'd joined the [00:46.62]Church of jesus [00:49.58]Me I remember your long red hair falling in our faces [00:55.25]As I kissed you [00:59.98]I want you to know we just had to grow [01:08.66]I want you to know I just had to go [01:16.93]And you're probably married now house and kids and all [01:28.24]And you turned into a grownup female stranger [01:37.03]And if I was lying near you now [01:40.32]I just had to go [01:50.42]Well we parted so hard [01:54.70]Me rushing round Britain with a guitar [01:59.86]Making love to people [02:04.06]I didn't even like to see [02:11.03]I would think of you [02:14.39]Yes I mean in the six sad morning [02:19.33]And in the lonely midnight [02:23.21]Try to hold your face before me [02:29.67]I want you to know I just had to go [02:38.27]I want you to know we just had to grow [02:47.67]And you're probably married now the house cars and all [02:58.90]And you turned into a grownup female stranger [03:07.81]And if I was lying near you now [03:10.97]I'd just have to fall [03:17.02] [03:22.39]Well I never slept with you [03:26.72]Though we must have made love a thousand times [03:31.49]For we were just young didn't have no place to go [03:42.67]But in the wide hills and beside many a long water [03:51.54]You have gathered flowers and they do not smell for me [04:01.76]I want you to know I just had to go [04:10.02]I want you to know we just had to grow [04:14.52] [04:19.97]And it's goodbye first love and I hope you're fine [04:31.54]Well I have a sweet woman [04:35.38]Maybe some day to have babies by me [04:39.66]She's pretty [04:42.70]And a good friend of mine [04:49.07]