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First Girl I Loved

from Clean, Masculine & Confident by Rube

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By Robin Williamson, (c) Paradox Music

First girl 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 now, since many is the short year,
And the last time I seen you, you said you’d joined the Church of Jesus.
But me, I remember your long red hair falling in our faces
As I kissed you

Well, 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 car and all,
And you turned into a grownup, female, stranger.
And if I was lying near you now,
I probably wouldn’t be here at all.

Well, 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.

Well, 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, kids 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.

So it’s goodbye first love, and I hope you’re fine
I have a sweet woman
Maybe some day to have babies by me, she’s pretty,
Is a true friend of mine.

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from Clean, Masculine & Confident, released April 12, 2019

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Rube was formed in New York in 2016. We recorded our first album in Georgia in 2018. Now we live in New York, Georgia, and Los Angeles. We play poppy country rock music; it's as dumb as it sounds but it's pretty smart sometimes.

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