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Date: 10/1/02; 7:20:53 PM
 >From: Dariensrhoton@cs.com
 Subject: "First Love" - 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.