Goldsboro, Bobby - Summer (The First Time) Lyrics

I saw the sunrise as A Man. Some trip.

I WANT TO KNOW WHERE IN THE HELL THESE WOMAN WERE.....BECAUSE I NEVER HAD THAT SITUATION, BUT I WOULD HAVE KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT THATS FOR CERTAIN IF IT DID HAPPEN.

A true classic with great lyrics.. Come back the seventies

One of the ten best songs of all time.

The P.C. world. So sad. I don't give a shit, it's a great song.

Funny, when this first came out I loved the melody, always have. Now as I listen I can only say the woman was a child molester. She'd be in prison. Bobby, you did make an interesting song.

Just Awesome...

Was a kid when this was a hit in the uk 1973,a few years later i knew what it was all about, I never encountered "the older woman",a great song,tucked away in my memories.

I was 18 yrs old in 1973, I'm from Charleston, West Virginia, USA. I remember this song well. Saying goodbye to my cute blonde haired, brown eyed girlfriend, who was 17 yrs old. It was a very hot day in June 1973, I left for boot camp with the United States Marine Corps. We had nothing in common with this song, except saying goodbye, and we listened to this song numerous times, we loved this song. To this day I remember her every time I hear this song. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.

like every thing bobby sings fantastic

I have a deja vú with this song when I was very young (several decades ago) today I have almost 70, those things that occur to you I started in my head to hum a song and it was taking shape until I forgot, on some occasion time Then I heard her on the big radio, it was my surprise when I discovered that the chords were the same, I could not believe it, maybe I had not listened to it, it is not something I still cannot understand, on the other hand the melody is beautiful.- Thank you for uploading it !!

So many memories of my Mum listening to this on the radio, she ended up buying the 45. I grew to love her music - still do.

I remember this song like it was yesterday in 1973.It has always been one of my favorite songs. I had my first real girl friend in the summer of 1973.When the back seat of my parents 98 oldsmobile was being used by her and I this song was blasting on AM radio. What memories.They don't write songs like this anymore...

I was 18 in 1973. I too, remember an old girlfriend. Going on dates in my 1967 Mustang. Great memories.

Those violins,wow

Beautiful song wen the world was a better place

Love this. School days!!

I was 18 yrs old getting ready to leave for boot camp with United States Marine Corps. Saying goodbye to my cute blonde haired girlfriend who had the cutest brown eyes. Great memories during those last few days before I left for boot camp.

The song lyrics sound like they are loosely based on the movie SUMMER OF 42.

Approaching 2020 and I still listen to this. Fond memories of my Ma and Pa , may they rest in peace

What a fantastically atmospheric song. You can almost feel the sun burning your skin. Pure class.

This guy sounds like those few who always do their homeworks, never late, & wake up early. Recepi for success.

So good. It evokes many memories and emotions that I had almost forgotten..thankfully, not.

This is the only BG song I like. It's so evocative of how summer feels and the sultry background piano at the end is great. Brings back memories...

Never forget your 1st time

sublime

...FYI: here's a famous Dutch version of this song, telling the same story... In Holland is was a bíg hit... :-).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ZQeswiZNQ

This song is so beautiful and sexy as hell! Me

one of the best songs of the 70s

paul kerrane another song from the seventies sat in a tank on the east west border .

recuerdo con mucho cariño este bello tema summer lo escuchaba en 1974 , y ahora me trae muchos inolvidables recuerdos de cuando yo tenia 12 y 13 años recuerdo mi primer amor flor de maria donde quiera que estes te amo.

I'm 62, heard some great songs, But the world is a different place today, I'm so glad I was born in 57 and heard so much great music, This song comes into that class..

I was four when I first heard this. being the youngest of eight my music rangers all genres & eras. Lucky me to have such an enormous range of fantastic music to listen to every thing from 1940 my mum n dad to now, Must agree with Bill Wellington Totally true

Aural caviar.

What a beautiful song and in another world what a sensual video one could make to match this.

Takes me back to a far better time than we have now.. This is brilliantly arranged work of art. My feelings are that it's like listening in 3D .. Sounds of nature, scent of a woman, and innocence ready to fly away on the breeze !

I was thirteen years old when this song became popular in 73. I had taken my first job as a clerk in a convenience store and can remember mopping the floors while listening to this song! I used to think about how "lucky" the subject "boy" was to have been seduced by an older "gal!" The lyrics are surprisingly haunting!

The strings are fantastic and I can recognize the 'sound' from other hits after - this is a great track, massively under-rated and un-appreciated - the piano answer back hook just grabs me. What a vocalist

I'm 65, and I remember, every word ...Wonderful

I listen to this song back in 1973 and was just a teenager starting to think of girls and having a big crush on a school girl that used to be on my school bus but went to a different school wow bring back those days and every time I here this song my mind goes back to those wonderful days of being a teenager thank you for so many sweet memories.

I loved this song and just thought of it again today - the "forbiddenness" of the story intrigued me as a teenager. The construction of the song is what I would call sensual for lack of a better word. It sure fired my teenage imagination!

A masterpiece exquisitely beautiful.

🌺 Just Fabulous.
One of my very favourite
songs. 60s 70s 80s
best music ever from
these decades. Oh to go
back in time, even just for
a day. Dream.

Joyce when you find that time machine, txt me. I'd love to return to the 70s when this was a hit. My favorite Bobby Goldsboro song was "Honey" then this. I miss the late 60s and 70s.

My gentle pit bull
I don't know where you are from
but I am an AUSSIE. 60s 70s and the 80s music and way of life here , was just the best. No PC
Bullshit, no alphabet of genders, just us girls and the boys and fun times. Hope you had the same.

Today's youth is fucked because they won't be.

This was a hit when I was 14 now I'm 65.Still great to listen to!

All due respect sir. This song was recorded in the late 60s but not released until June 1973. The words were to controversial for the late 60s. So who ever, waited until 1973. I thought the same until I looked it up on Google. When we were 13 and 14 yrs old the song "Honey" came out in 1968..✌🇺🇸🎹

I heard it coming from the early tranny radios that had 4 transistors tuned to Radio Caroline pirate ship stationed off the coast of Suffolk when I was 14ish and camping at Walberswick Tent Site.This was before the BBC radio 1 and 2 started and radio north sea international, which was forced to close down when customs put a fire hose onto the transmitter aerial while the valves pumped out thousands of watts of music!
It seems that your government was tighter than ours here in Blighty (UK)
at that time! There was no FM/ VHF and only medium wave and long wave.
As you know the medium wave propagates globally on the gray path at dusk and it was picked up in South Africa and Rhodesia whilst their police
went on Immorality Patrols to stop the corruption (and race mixing).
Bet that was fun, but who for?

From the opening what poetry ....

Great song but I preferred 'Hello Summertime' and the original Coca-Cola theme it was based on from Summer '74

It was released June 1973, I remember it well. I was saying goodbye to my cute girl friend, leaving for boot camp to become a United States Marine...Parris Island, SC. Man this was a great song. Miss the 70s.

Sounds like a very lucky young man to me . Wish it would have happened to me when I was 17.

Just beautiful!

I was 19 and from England and had the summer in Florida with a 39 year old Sandy Scordo

Just so amazing .....takes me back to a time in my youth when I was a free spirit...never forget that experience.......

The 70s were a great time to be a teenager and young adult. I'd go back and stay.

Absolute classic life was so good when we didn't have so much

I was 15 and the foster family I lived with in '73 had 1 daughter of 17. TIN MAN by America just was released at this same time, what a Summer.

I dare anyone to say they don't like this song! It's a real tear-jerker.

"I saw the sunrise as a Man'. wow..... so very apt.

Sooooo nostalgic!!

I love this song. Reminds me of when I was a kid. 👍

Possibly the biggest pile of empty crap to top the charts. The musical equivalent of 'Pretty Woman.

Lovely tune Ernie, thanks for your work on it

Great Piano Riff.

So beautiful

I grew up remembering the Ronnie Aldrich instrumental version I never heard the lyrics until about a decade ago those Piano Licks have always been in my memories since childhood!

The thing is it seems okay for a older woman but not the other way round shame I think we older guys have some experience as well just a thought

Love the mood and serenity of that melody; so well for the Soul!

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!! I finally found it after years of searching!!!!

A song about statutory rape gets thousands of likes.

Brilliant Song. Gets you thinking about "The First Time" lol

I was seventeen sir was forty two I was completely out of my depth she was extremely sweet about my complete lack of experience i.m sixty one now I wonder what happened to her

Great memories of the summer of 1973 when we went on holiday to Yarmouth listing to the radio on the beach. So much has changed since those days sadly

Me to,went to Yarmouth with my mum and dad every year ,radio 1 roadshows,happy happy times when life was fun.Took my mum back in '87 after dad died I could see the sadness in her eyes the memories were to hurtfull for both of us I guess.Miss you both so much.xxx

@John Marsh We also went to the radio 1 show in the 80s .can't remember the name of the singer but he sang I want let the sun go down on me.Gary Davis was the DJ with Peter Pow.We got a radio 1 mug and other things but long gone now

This is so wonderfully evocative of all those "let's take the piss out of Bobby Goldsboro" parties we used to go to back in the good old days.

It’s a fantastic song , great vocal and production

Esta canción es mágica para mí porque me transporta al 1974 Mi primer amor tan lejano ya hermoso tema

What a fantastic summer song, remember it when it was released as a teenager, still gets me

One of the worst songs ever, along with I've Never Been To Me' Trite, contrived, predictable and unbelievable. Just my opinion,,,,

Abeautiful song. I first heard this aged six,having 7 older brothers & sisters I heard all genfres of music. Didnt understand it of course but knew it was serene & beautiful & still is at 54

song of our times I was 13 at the time

I was 15 she was 86....never ever forget......sorry just my nutty look on life..seriously this can do my head in such a wonderful song ..youth..dreams...a long time ago ..bollocks

Beautiful

What a beautiful song that brings back so many wonderful memories of youth and all the experiences that would last a lifetime... aaahhhhh..... BRILLIANT xx xx

I am 17 and he is 31.....

Dolannes Melody 1982 for Jean Pierre Mocky R I P but....

memories of long ago.... when i was just a kid, my life before me......my mother listening to this in the kitchen, my mind on my pet mouse, scalextric rally cross and building a good den in the wood at Is y llan LLanddarog..... good days long ago, forever in my thoughts.

He was younger than me and I should have known better! But couldn’t help myself......

So much better than the crap they churn out today thank you.

Those were the days ❤

Super son hyper romantique j adore
Claude rebille paris

My dad x Tommy. GOULDSON X DAD YOU TOLD ME WHEN I WAS A KID X THIS IS YOU'RE FAVOURITE SONG XX DAD DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE PERSON IN WORLD 🌍 HELEN X THANKS FOR BEING MY DADDY

I love the music but cannot stand the words at any price. UGH!

DOLANNES MELODY

beautiful song x

it's the summer of July 2019 still Hot! Great Song!🌅🌅🌅

And now, finally, I would like to pronounce, this to be an 'absolute masterpiece'.

Keeping that zinging hot note all through the first half of the first verse. I felt I was there.

My mother would listen to All kinds of music back then. I only knew the Millie Jackson version. Great song no matter who sings it

A summer day in Hyde Park with the most beautiful girl

Brilliant melody...just love it.....Still!

i was 21 she was 47 (joan) wish she was here

woo, the guy in this song.. he's a dirty lucky bastard.

I was 56 and she was 63 we had fun, at least I think we did

Fab song brings back memories

Love this song brings back memories of my younger days and sends shivers up and down my spine, brilliant song and well engineered

One of the best songs of my teenage years.brilliant.

she is 31 he is 17 pervert lucky bastard.