Judy Collins - First Boy I Loved lyrics

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