Alan Jackson - 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.