David Crosby

Released: May 4, 1993

Songwriter: Stephen Bishop

Producer: Phil Ramone

First time I saw her
She was still in school
Chewin' on a pencil
Playin' pool
Stayin' up all night
Full of dreams

I've known her family
Ever since we were small
Gettin' in trouble
Drivin' our folks up the wall
Wastin' time
Yeah....but we had fun
She was gonna
Ride her bike to China
Sail away on a bottle top
And as the years passed by
One night I held her close to me
That was the first time I
Said I love you
To Natalie

Carousel was crowded
So we talked for a while
Natalie said, "Baby
You know I miss your smile...
Whenever you go away
From me."
You know that time starts tickin'
When a love starts to fade
I knew something was wrong but still
I thought we had it made
The first time I
Said I love you
To Natalie
That was the first time I
Said I love you
To Natalie

Now I look at her pictures
And I talk to these walls
Call out her name
But
She don't hear
Me at all

And she got wild and restless
Tried everything
She could take
One night I tried to stop her
But I was too late

That was the last time I
Said I love you
To Natalie

And that was the last time I
Said I love you
To Natalie

That was the last time I
Said I love you
That was the last time I
Said I love you
That was the last time I
Said I love you
To Natalie

Before David Van Cortlandt Crosby was making supergroup music with Stills, Nash, and Young, he was a founding member of The Byrds, itself a super-famous band.

In fact, the origin of CSN&Y centers around him getting in trouble with his Byrds band-mates when he played onstage with Buffalo Springfield at the infamous Monterey Pop Festival. He was substituting for Neil Young at the request of his friend Stephen Stills. This got David in trouble with the Byrds, and within a year he left that band, bumping into also-unemployed Stills and teaming up with Graham Nash (of The Hollies) to form Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Within a year, Young joined them and their combined efforts were some of the biggest artistic success of any of the four singer-songwriters.

The bulk of Crosby’s subsequent career is a stylized montage of songs recorded solo or with one or more of the other CSN&Y members, many of whom have teamed up to release albums at one time or another, in various combinations.

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