First Boy I Loved - Judy Collins

First boy I loved

Time has come I will sing you

This sad goodbye song

When I was seventeen, I used to know you

Well, I haven’t seen you, many is the short year

And the last time I seen you

You said you’d joined the Church of Jesus

Well me, I remember your long red hair falling in our faces

As you kissed me

And 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

House and car and all

And you turned into a grownup male stranger

And if I was lying with you now

I’d just have to fall

We parted so hard

Me, rushing round Britain with a guitar

Making love to people

That I didn’t even like to see

Well, 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

And I want you to know, I just had to go

And I want you to know, we just had to grow

And you’re probably married now, kids and all

And you turned into a grownup male stranger

And if I was lying with you now

I wouldn’t be here at all

I never slept with you

But we must have made love a thousand times

For we were just young, didn’t have no place to go

Yet in the wide hills and by many a long water

You have gathered flowers, and did they not smell for me?

And I want you to know, we just had to grow

And I want you to know, I just had to go

So it’s goodbye first love

And I hope you are fine

I am a sweet man’s woman

Maybe some day to have babies by

He’s a true friend of mine