Roberta Flack - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face guitar tab

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