Chords for The Steel Wheels "First Girl I Loved" by John Hartford

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[Gm] I [F] was in love with you [Cm] _
before I knew it [Bb] meant more than just wanting to be with you.
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I used to look for [Ab] other girls _ just [C] like you.
_ _ [Eb] [F] But the laws of [Cm] nature said forget it son, [Bb] _ at least that's what _ somebody told me.
[F] _ I'm worried [Cm] about it [Ab] a little bit, [Gm] but that's all.
[C] _ [Eb] _ _ [F] I _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] dreamt that you [Cm] were Joan of Arc [Bb] and I was Don _ Quixote. _
_ [F] And everywhere we [Cm] went, [Ab] _
the world [Cm] was _ [Bb] [C] tenfold. _
[Eb] [F] But I gave up [Cm] dreaming and became a priest.
[Bb] They put it right out of my _ system.
[Dm] I'm worried _ about [Ab] it a little bit, [G] but [C] that's all.
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_ _ _ [D] Yeah, you used to play [C] the _ _ guitar.
[Dm] You worked [F] in a [Gm] country van. _
_ _ [Dm] _ Ran on down [Bb]
[C] by the _ [Bb] riverbanks [Gm] on _ _ _ Sundays.
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Your brother was [F] my closest _ friend.
[Gm] He drove a pickup [Dm] truck.
_ _ You [Gm] used to bring me [Bb] home _ [F] sometimes from high [C] _ school. _ _
_ [Bb] And [F] I was _ fifteen, [Cm] the very first [Bb] time that love broke completely _ inside me.
[F] We were young.
_ [Ab] We were learning about [G] it [Bbm] together.
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And [F] we'd had enough of [Cm] what we thought we'd [Bb] need to lose well-known secret _ fables.
_ [F] _ I'm worried _ [C] [Ab] about it a little bit, but [C] that's all.
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_ _ _ [Bb] [F] And I regret [Cm] I won't live long enough [Bb] to make love to all the women that I'd like. _ _
[F] _ _ Least of all, [Ab] to live with the ones [G] I [Bbm] [C] love. _
[F] I never regret a [Cm] love affair, _ [Bb] except one, and that's all over.
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Worried about [Ab] it a little bit, [Cm] but that's all.
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_ _ Yeah, [D] you used to play [C] the _ guitar.
[Dm] You worked [F] in [Gm] a country van. _ _
_ [Dm] Ran on down [C] by the _ [Bb] riverbanks [Gm] on _ _ Sundays.
[G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
Your brother _ was [F] my closest _ friend.
He [Gm] drove a [Dm] pickup truck.
_ _ [Gm] You used to [Bb] bring me home _ _ [F] sometimes from high [C] school. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bb] _ [F] I heard that you [Cm] moved way up north [Bb] and your kids are fighting plenty. _ _ _
[F] _ _ Haven't seen your [C] brother [Ab] _ _
since way [Gm] back east.
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[F] And if all the girls [Cm] in the whole wide world [Bb] were just a little bit more like you.
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Worried _ about [Ab] it a little bit, [G] but [A] that's [B] all.
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