the first time i ever — текст песни (Flack Roberta)

Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 17:27:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: Rev. Linda Slug
Subject: The first time ever I saw your face

On your guitar file you have a set of words and chords for the Ewan
MacColl song First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. I only know the Roberta
Flack recording and although it`s obviously the same song
the words and particularly the chords are completely different from what
you have written. Maybe MacColl used more than one tune.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

Dm G C
The first time ever I saw your face
Am Em F
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
C
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
Bb C
to the dark and the end of the skies



The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hand,
like a trembling heart of a captive bird,
that was there at my birth.

And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
and I knew our joy would fill the earth
and last till the end of time

Transcribed 3rd November 1995 by David Linley.
Comments and corrections to dal23@hermes.cam.ac.uk