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Date: 9/24/98; 5:35:13 PM
From: kef1jac@kef10.med.navy.mil (Cochran, John A.  LT)
Subject: So long ago

Submitted by: John Cochran
Sung by:      Nanci Griffith
Written by:   Nanci Griffith
Album:        Little Love Affairs
e-mail:       jacpac@mwr.is

So Long Ago

D                       A              G
My daddy sent me off to Baton Rouge in 1969
            D               A                    G
He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind
       D               A                   G
So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train
      D               A                  G
And I remember waving back at you from a silted window pane

CHORUS
           D         A                 G       
And I said fare thee well true love of mine
           D         A                  G
And I said fare thee well sweet lips of wine
             D         A             G
And you said fare thee well my Texas rose
             D              A                G
And then you blew a kiss of innocence as the trains began to roll
        D   A   G
So long ago

D                 A                  G
You'd gone off to fight the war when I returned from school
      D            A                  G
And I traded in my innocence when the springtime came in bloom
      D              A           G
And I married for my family; one night I dreamed of you
             D               A                   G
And you were running from me in the rain down on Congress Avenue

CHORUS
      D                 A               G
Now I saw you once in a crowded bar and it was Christmas time
      D                 A              G
I was frightened by the thunder of our hearts in '69
          D               A                  G
Because I live my life in whispers now and I choose to live alone
     D                   A                     G
So I slipped back to the Avenue and flipped my collar to the cold

CHORUS             D   A   G
TAG:  Where did we go
                   D   A   G
      Back long ago
                   D   A   G/D
      So Long Ago.