"First Love"
Written by Alan Jackson.
(© EMI April Music/Tri-Angels Music.)
From "Drive", © 2002, Arista Nashville.
Transcribed by Darien Rhoton
[Verse 1]
G D
I was fifteen, she was eighteen,
G C G
The prettiest thing I'd ever seen in my life.
D
An' I loved her at first sight.
G D G C
I found her in Marietta, a town north of Atlanta.
G D
I brought her home to see my folks,
G
They loved her too.
[Verse 2]
D
We were together for a long time,
G C
Thought it would be for all time.
G D
But things change and re-arrange, she had to go.
G C G C
She left me cryin' in '79, an airline pilot in Caroline.
G D
I was a wreck, can't drive a check:
G
It broke my heart.
[chorus]
C D
My first love was an older woman.
C
There's been many since,
D
But there'll never be another.
G C G C
Built in nineteen fifty-five, snowshoe white, overdrive,
G D
I should've never sold her, I'll always love her,
G
She was mine.
Instrumental Break.
[same as verse 1]
Years went by, teardrops dried;
I got her back, I was surprised.
In '93, a gift to me on Christmas Eve.
We were both older, so I restored her.
Could've sold her, for a lot more.
But I will never, she's mine forever,
Until I go.
[chorus]
C G D
I'll never sell her, she's mine forever,
G
I love her so.
