ARTIST: Gunther Anderson and Donna Dubé
TITLE: A Girl with Your Name
Lyrics and Chords


Intro: / F - G - / C C/B Am - / F - - - / G - - - C - - - /

   Pardon this, the accidental
   Intrusion of a stranger
   But twenty years ago I knew
   A girl with your name

   / F - G - / C C/B Am - / F - - - / G - C - - - /

I was looking through old boxes
Full of dust and memory
Of things I never found in me
The will to set free

/ C - Am - / F - G - / :

   I found old letters long since read
   And long ago forgotten
   And there I saw a love note
   From a girl with your name

   ... / G - - - C - - - /

In a breath, a rush, some things came back
Some feelings poorly formed
For I was just a teenage boy
And she was so much more

   Just half a correspondence there
   Her words alone remained
   All that I said or didn't say
   Is lost and gone away

   ... / G - - - C - - - /

{Bridge}
And now I often think of you
And where your dreams have led you to
And have you found your poet's muse
Bound within your soul to lose
And was it ever yours to refuse again

/ Dm - - - Am - - - / Dm - - - G - - - /
   / E - - - / Am - - - / F - - - G - - - /

   I don't remember how it ended
   I know I must have hurt you
   For that is what we young boys do
   To things we cannot understand

   ... / G - C - - C /

I don't know if I loved you
I don't know if I told you
It's all so long ago, I know
Those feelings that I couldn't show

/ Am - - - / F - - - / Dm - - - / E - - - /

Each precious page, I finally see
A work of art from you to me
The poet lover shining through
But I, the child, had no clue
What I was supposed to do

... / G - - G C - Am - F - G - C - Am - F - G - /

I found your name upon the sleeve
Of a book of new young poetry
And wondered if you were ever she
And if you still might want to be

   So I thought that I could write to you
   And ask you if you ever knew
   A boy who could not see the truth
   Of a girl with your name

   ... / G - C - - - /

{Bridge}
But twenty years ago I knew
These things I can't admit to you
And now I fumble to explain
How all I brought to you was pain
And will I just forget this shame again

I'm sorry to have bothered you
And for conjuring these ghosts anew
And even if she wasn't you 
Don't feel you have to answer

   So pardon this, the accidental
   Intrusion of a stranger
   I only wonder what became
   Of a girl with your name

   ... / G - - - C - - - /

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