(If I'd only come and gone,)
The way I've always done with summer girls before.
Shared one night with you and never reached for more.
Then we wouldn't face this long and painful
Righting of the wrong,
(If I'd just come and gone.)

(If I hadn't stayed so long,)
And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door.
Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor.
I'd have left you in your doorway smilin'
Drowsy at the dawn.
(If I'd just come and gone.)

Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver.
Or a schooner blowin' down the Biscayne Bay.
You'd be safely tucked away among the pleasures I'd remember.
'Stead of lyin' here beside me,
Fearin' restless thoughts inside me,
That might awaken with the breakin' of each new day.

(If you'd only stopped to read,)
Cold hard words I carved on other bedroom walls.
And heard the mornin' coffee truths -- I told 'em all.
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/NhGI'd still be on your lips
Like some unfinished half-remembered song.
You'd never've loved me,
(If I'd just come and gone.)

(If I'd only come and gone.)
(If I'd only come and gone.)
(If I'd only come and gone.)

Come and gone, come and gone.

IF I'D ONLY COME AND GONE
Written by: Shel Silverstein
Performed by: Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show1-1972
Appears on: Sloppy Seconds-19722, Ballad of Lucy Jordan-1975, Best of
Dr. Hook-1980, Super Hits-2001, The Essential Dr. Hook & the Medicine
Show, et al.

1Covered by: Earl Scruggs-1973 & Tompall Glaser-1976, et al.

2Transcribed from the track on this album.

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