Verse 1
Bought Her Used At The Corner Music Store
Had A Few Cracks And Scratches Where She’d Been To War
But There Was Something I Heard In The Ring Of Those Strings
Like We’d Both Been Through Some Things
I’d Sing My Struggles, She’d Bleed Her Tones
Frets Buzzin’ On A Bar Stage With The Words In My Songs
But The Rent Comes Due And The Dreams Grow Tired
So I Let Her Go Cheap And Put Out The Fire
Chorus
Now The Callouses Are Soft And The Songs Don’t Come
The Way They Did Back Then Before I Said I Was Done
Yeah I Traded My Heart For More Dents And Scars
The Day I Let Go Of My First Guitar
Verse 2
Years Rolled By, Had A Steady Job
Filed Away What I Wrote On That Spruce Pine Top
I Still Hear Her Voice When The Sleep Ain’t Easy
The Chords From That Wood Still Do Something To Me
Chorus
But The Callouses Are Soft And The Songs Don’t Come
The Way They Did Back Then Before I Said I Was Done
Yeah I Traded My Heart For More Dents And Scars
The Day I Let Go Of My First Guitar
Whoa, Whoa...
Verse 3
Then One Broken Morning, Gloss On The Grass
Leaned An Old Tattered Case Against The Storm Door Glass
Inside Was A Note, Black Ink, In All Caps
Told The Story Of How She Made Her Way Back
Said, “Thanks For The Years And All The Songs
But I Think It’s Time This Old Friend Comes Home Where She Belongs”
Chorus
Now These Old Strings Are Hummin’ And The Songs Keep Comin’
Like Two Old Friends And A River Runnin’
Sometimes You Gotta Lose A Thing To Find Who You Are
Yeah, That’s Me And My First Guitar
Outro
She’s Got New Dents, I’ve Got These Old Hands
Fingers On The Frets Like The First Day They Danced
Every Note We Wrote And I Sang In Those Bars
Still Live Inside My First Guitar
Yeah, She’s Home Now... My First Guitar
