First Girl I Loved Chords
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Difficulty: | intermediate |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Capo: | no capo |
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FOLLOWING THE RIFF, TRANSITION IMMEDIATELY TO NEXT LINE.
Most Of The Time You Start Singing The Next Line Before Finishing The Riff.
Riff: |-----------------1--|
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|-3---------------1--|
[Intro]
F Cm7 F Cm7
[Verse]
F Cm7
I was in love with you, well-before I knew
Bb
It meant more than just wanting to be with you
F G Riff
I used to look for other girls that looked like you
F Cm7
But the laws of nature said, 'forget it, son'
Bb
'Least that's what somebody told me
F G Riff
I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
F Cm7
I dreamt that you were Joan-of Arc
Bb
And I was Don Quixote
F G Riff
And everywhere we went the world was tin-foil
F Cm7
But I gave up dreaming, and became a priest
Bb
And put it right out of my system
F G Riff
I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
[Bridge]
F Cm7 F Cm7
Dm C
Now you used to play the guitar
F Gm7
We worked in a country band
Dm C F Gm7
I hung out down on the river bank, on Sun----day
Bb F
Your brother was my closest friend
Gm7 F
He drove a pickup truck
Bb F Gm7 C Bb
He used to bring me home sometimes, from high school
F Cm7
Now I was fifteen, oh the very first time
Bb
Love broke completely inside me
F G Riff
We were young, and we were learning about it together
F Cm7
And we had enough of what we thought we'd need
Bb
Of those well-known secret fables
F G Riff
We worried about it a little bit, but that's all
[Bridge]
F Cm7 F Cm7
F Cm7
I regret my life won't be long enough
Bb
To make love to all the women that I'd like to
F G Riff
Or least of all, to live with the ones I've loved
F Cm7
And I've never regretted a love affair
Bb
Except one and that's all over
F G Riff
I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
[Bridge]
F Cm7 F Cm7
F Cm7
Now I heard you lived a-way up north
Bb
Your kids are fat and plenty
F G Riff
And I haven't seen your brother since a-way last Easter
F Cm7
And if every other girl in the whole wide world
Bb
Was just a little bit more like you
F G Riff
I'd worry about it a little bit, but that's all
[Bridge]
F Cm7 F Cm7
Dm C
Now you used to play the guitar
F Gm7
We worked in a country band
Dm C F Gm7
I hung out down on the river bank, on Sun----day
Bb F
Your brother was my closest friend
Gm7 F
He drove a pickup truck
Bb F Gm7 C Bb
He used to bring me home sometimes, from high school
[Outro]
F Cm7 F Cm7
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First Girl I Loved – John Hartford
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My favorite John Hartford song and I had the pleasure of meeting him and telling him so!
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