The Girl I Left Behind Me

(Neil Sedaka/Carole Bayer)

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Vocals: Davy Jones

Piano: Keith "Red" Mitchell

Bass: Red Callender

Drums: Milt Holland

Violen: Israel Baker, Robert Barene, & Elliot Fisher

Cello: Fredrick Seykora

French Horn: Vincent DeRosa, John Gross, & Richard Noel

Arranged By: Charlie Smalls

Recorded At: RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood

Date: October 31 and November 7 & 21, 1967

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You told not to try and tie you down

So, I just took my place and hung around

You always said that you must be free

But you couldn't see you were loosing me

And messing up the one good thing we had

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And now I'm going out the way that I came in

The game is over now, I couldn't win

My heart is all I have to pack

And this time girl I wont be back

And years from now I'll turn around and see

The girl I left behind me

I told myself that things would be ok

You would come around to my way any day

But as time went on you just stayed the same

No, you couldn't change or be rearranged

I'm picking up the pieces of my life

CHORUS

As time went on you just stayed the same

No, you couldn't change or be rearranged

I'm picking up the pieces of my life

CHORUS

Behind me...