First Verse 


                     Bb 
If I'd only come and gone 
Bb                            C              F 
The way I've always done with summer girls before 
F          Bb                 C                 F 
Shared one night with you and never reached for more 
F       C                                   C 
Then we wouldn't face this long and painful righting of the wrong 

If I'd just come and gone 


Second Verse 


                      Bb 
If I hadn't stayed so long 
Bb                         C                  F 
And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door 
F          Bb                     C                 F 
Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor 
F           C                                C 
If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsy at the dawn 
            F 
If I'd just come and gone 


Third Verse 


F           Bb                        F 
Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver 
F    Bb                                 F 
Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay 
F        Bb             C             F 
You'd be safely tucked away among the pleasure I'd remember 

'Stead of lyin' here beside me fearin' restless thoughts inside me 

That might awaken with the breakin' of each new day 


Fourth Verse 


                         Bb 
If you'd only stopped to read 
Bb                          C             F 
Cold hard words I carved on other bedroom walls 
F             Bb             C                 F 
And heard the mornin' coffee truths I told 'em all 
F            C 
I'd still be on your lips like some unfinished half-remembered song 

You'd never have loved me if I'd just come and gone 


Outro 


            F 
If I'd just come and gone 
F                    Bb 
If I'd only come and gone 
Bb                   C 
If I'd only come and gone 
C                    F 
If I'd only come and gone...