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:

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 it's gonna hurt me for a long, long time.

D    E       F#m D     E    A
Wait for the day you'll 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'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.