First Girl I Loved - Don Partridge

First girl I loved
Time has come I will sing you this sad goodbye song
When I was seventeen I used to know you
I haven't seen you now since many is the long year
And the last time I seen you you said you'd joined the
Church of jesus
Me I remember your long red hair falling in our faces
As I kissed you
I want you to know we just had to grow
I want you to know I just had to go
And you're probably married now house and kids and all
And you turned into a grownup female stranger
And if I was lying near you now
I just had to go
Well we parted so hard
Me rushing round Britain with a guitar
Making love to people
I didn't even like to see
I would think of you
Yes 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
And you're probably married now the house cars and all
And 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
For 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
And it's goodbye first love and I hope you're fine
Well I have a sweet woman
Maybe some day to have babies by me
She's pretty
And a good friend of mine