Band: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show Side: I Track: II Song: If I'd Only Come & Gone 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...