Long, Long Time

Words & Music by Gary White
Recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies, 1970


D     E    F#m   D      E        A
Love will abide. Take things in stride.  

D        E7        F#m               B7            E
Sounds like good advice, but there's no one at my side;

     D     E     F#m   D      E        A
And time washes clean love's wounds unseen; 

   D   E7           F#m   F#m7      B7                 E7
That's what someone told me, but I don't know what it means.


Refrain:

       D    E7         A              F#m     F#m7     D
Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine,

       A        E     F#m      D        A     E    A       
And I think I'm gonna love you   for a long, long time.



D      E      F#m     D       E         A
Caught in my fears, blinking back the tears;  

    D    E7     F#m F#m7          B7           E
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near.

    D E     F#m  D         E         A
And I never drew   one response from you, 

 D       E7       F#m  F#m7  B7             E7
All the while you fell over girls you never knew. 


Repeat Refrain:


D    E       F#m D     E    A
Wait for the day   you go away,  

 D       E7       F#m  F#m7        B7                E
knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay;

    D       E      F#m  D      E         A
And life's full of loss,  who knows the cost, 

D      E7     F#m       F#m7       B7             E7
Living in the mem - o - ry of the love that never was.

        D        E        A              F#m      F#m7        D
'Cause I've done    everything I know to try and change your mind,

       A        E       F#m      F#m7      A      E   A    F#m
And I think I'm   gonna miss you    for a long, long time.
  

Coda:

        D       E      A
'Cause I've done everything I know 

    A7                 D - Dm7
To try and make you mine,

        A       E       F#m       D        A     E     A
And I think I'm   gonna love you    for a long, long time.



 
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