So Long Ago - Nanci Griffith

My daddy sent me off to Baton Rouge in nineteen-sixty-nine

He said our love was like a forest fire and he’d end it with the miles

So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train

I remember waving back at you through a silted window pane

I said,"Fare thee well true love of mine."

I said,"Fare thee well, sweet lips of wine"

And you said,"Fare thee well my Texas rose."

And then you blew a kiss of innocence as the train began to roll

So long ago

You’d gone off to fight the war when I returned from school

I traded in my innocence when the springtime came to bloom

I married for my family one night I dreamed of you

And you were running from me in the rain down on Congress Avenue

I saw you once in a crowded bar it was Christmas time

I was frightened by the thunder of our hearts in sixty-nine

Because I live my life in whispers now and I choose to live alone

So I slipped back to the Avenue and flipped my collar to the cold

Where did we go?

That long ago?

So long ago