Verse 1Bought Her Used At The Corner Music StoreHad A Few Cracks And Scratches Where She’d Been To WarBut There Was Something I Heard In The Ring Of Those StringsLike We’d Both Been Through Some ThingsI’d Sing My Struggles, She’d Bleed Her TonesFrets Buzzin’ On A Bar Stage With The Words In My SongsBut The Rent Comes Due And The Dreams Grow TiredSo I Let Her Go Cheap And Put Out The FireChorusNow The Callouses Are Soft And The Songs Don’t ComeThe Way They Did Back Then Before I Said I Was DoneYeah I Traded My Heart For More Dents And ScarsThe Day I Let Go Of My First GuitarVerse 2Years Rolled By, Had A Steady JobFiled Away What I Wrote On That Spruce Pine TopI Still Hear Her Voice When The Sleep Ain’t EasyThe Chords From That Wood Still Do Something To MeChorusBut The Callouses Are Soft And The Songs Don’t ComeThe Way They Did Back Then Before I Said I Was DoneYeah I Traded My Heart For More Dents And ScarsThe Day I Let Go Of My First GuitarWhoa, Whoa...Verse 3Then One Broken Morning, Gloss On The GrassLeaned An Old Tattered Case Against The Storm Door GlassInside Was A Note, Black Ink, In All CapsTold The Story Of How She Made Her Way BackSaid, “Thanks For The Years And All The SongsBut I Think It’s Time This Old Friend Comes Home Where She Belongs”ChorusNow 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 AreYeah, That’s Me And My First GuitarOutroShe’s Got New Dents, I’ve Got These Old HandsFingers On The Frets Like The First Day They DancedEvery Note We Wrote And I Sang In Those BarsStill Live Inside My First GuitarYeah, She’s Home Now... My First Guitar
