Songwriter: Shel Silverstein
Producer: Ron Haffkine
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
If I hadn't stayed so long
And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door
Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor
If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsy at the dawn
If I'd just come and gone
[Bridge]
Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver
Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay
And you'll 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
[Verse 3]
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
I'd still be on your lips like some unfinished, half-remembered song
You'd never have loved me
If I'd just come and gone
[Outro]
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
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
[Verse 2]
If I hadn't stayed so long
And merely parked my dusty boots outside your door
Tracked no footprints 'cross your polished hardwood floor
If I'd have left you in your doorway smilin' drowsy at the dawn
If I'd just come and gone
[Bridge]
Then I'd be on a shinin' silver plane dippin' into Denver
Or a schooner blowin' down The Biscayne Bay
And you'll 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
[Verse 3]
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
I'd still be on your lips like some unfinished, half-remembered song
You'd never have loved me
If I'd just come and gone
[Outro]
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)
more tracks from the album
Greatest Hits (1995)
- Carry Me, Carrie
- Hey, Lady Godiva
- If I’d Only Come and Gone
- Makin’ It Natural
- The Ballad of Lucy Jordon
- Stayin’ Song
- Life Ain’t Easy
- Marie Lavaux
- Turn On The World
- Looking for Pussy
- Sylvia’s Mother
- Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie
- I Can’t Touch the Sun
- Acapulco Goldie
- Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball
- The Wonderful Soup Stone
- Penicillin Penny
- The Cover of the “Rolling Stone”
- Queen of the Silver Dollar
- The Things I Didn’t Say
- Last Mornin’
- Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk
- Four Years Older Than Me
- Get My Rocks Off
From the albums
- Sloppy Seconds (1972)
- The Ballad of Lucy Jordon (1975)
- Greatest Hits (1995) (1995)
Dr. Hook popular songs
- Sylvia’s Mother
- Sharing the Night Together
- The Cover of the “Rolling Stone”
- Sexy Eyes
- Storms Never Last
- A Little Bit More
- When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman
- The Ugliest Man In Town
- Chained to Her Memory
- Up on the Mountain
- Bread Upon the Water
- Love You Now
- I’m a Lamb
- More Like the Movies
- The Things I Didn’t Say
- Help Me Mama
- Mountain Mary
- Do You Right Tonight
- The Shadow Knows
- Monterey Jack
- That Plane
- Dooley Jones
- Feels Good
- Last Mornin’