NANCI GRIFFITH lyrics - So Long Ago

(Nanci Griffith)



My daddy sent me off to Baton Rouge

In nineteen sixty-nine

He said our love was like a forest fire

And he'd end it with the miles

So you rode with us to Temple, Texas

Where I did catch the train

I remember waving back at you

Through a silted window pane



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I said, "Fare thee well true love

Of mine"

I said, "Fare thee well sweet lips

Of wine"

And you said, "Fare thee well my

Texas rose"

And then you blew a kiss of

Innocence as the train began to roll

... So long ago



You'd gone off to fight the war when

I returned from school

I traded in my innocence when the

Springtime came to bloom

I married for my family... one night

I dreamed of you

And you were running from me in

The rain down on Congress Avenue



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I saw you once in a crowded bar...

It was Christmas time

I was frightened by the thunder of

Our hearts in sixty nine

Because I live my life in whispers now

And I choose to live alone

So I slipped back to the avenue and

Flipped my collar to the cold



[Chorus]



Where did we go?

That long ago?

So long ago