C G D [Verse 1] C If I'd only come and gone C D G The way I've always done with summer girls before G C D G Shared one night with you and never reached for more G D D Then we 't face this long and painful righting of the wrong G If I'd just come and gone [Verse 2] C D G And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door G C D G Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor G D D If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsy at the dawn G If I'd just come and gone [Verse 3] G C G Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver G C G Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay G D G You'Cd be safely tucked away among the pleasure I'd remember G That might awaken with the breakin' of each new day [Verse 4] C If you'd only stopped to read C D G Cold hard words I carved on other bedroom walls G C D G And heard the mornin' coffee truths I told 'em all G D I'd still be on your lips like some unfinished half-remembered song D You'd never have loved me if I'd just come and gone [Outro] G If I'd just come and gone G C If I'd only come and gone C D If I'd only come and gone D G If I'd only come and gone...