John Hartford - First Girl I Loved
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It is difficult to convey the timing, but the strokes come late. Listen to a recording
better understand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHycs0196lU
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Run (Mandolin):
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F Cm7 F Cm7
I was inF love with you oh bEbsus2efore I knew
Bb Bb_
It meant more than just wanting to be with you
Fsus2 G7 Run
I used to look for other girls that looked like you
But theF laws of nature said foEbsus2rget it son
BbLeast that's what somebody Bbtold me
Fsus2 G7 Run
I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
I dreamt that you we Joan of Arc
and I was Don Quixote
And everywhere we went the world was tinfoil
But I gave up dreaming and became a priest
It put it right out of my system
I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
Chorus:
Now youDm used to play theC guitar
WeDm workedC in aBb countryGm band
WeDm hung out down on theC river bank onGm Sun--C-Days Gm7 C
YourBb brother was myF closest friend
HeGm7 drove a pickupFmaj7 truck
HeBb used to bring meF home sometimes fromC higChschool Gm7 C
Now I was fifteen oh the very first time
Love broke completely inside me
We were young and we were learning about it together
And we had enough of what we thought we'd need of those
Well known secret fables
We worried about it a little bit, but that's all
I regret that life won't be long enough
To make love to all the women that I'd like to
Or least of all to live with the ones I've loved
But I've never regretted a love affair
Except one but that's all over
I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
Now I heard you lived way up north
Your kids are fat and plenty
And I haven't seen you brother since way last Easter
And if every other girl in the whole wide world
Was just a little bit more like you
I'd worry about it a little bit, but that's all
Chorus