If You See Him, Say Hello

If you see him, say hello, he might be in Tangier

He left here last early spring, is livin' there, I hear

Say for me that I'm all right though

things get kind of slow

He might think that I've forgotten him,

Don't tell him it isn't so.

We had a falling-out, like lovers often will

And to think of how he left that night,

it still brings me a chill

And though our separation,

it pierced me to the heart

He still lives inside of me, we've never been apart

If you get close to him, kiss him once for me

I always have respected him

for doing what he did and gettin' free

Oh, whatever makes him happy,

I won't stand in the way

Though the bitter taste still lingers on

from the night I tried to make him stay

I see a lot of people as I make the rounds

And I hear his name here and there

as I go from town to town

And I've never gotten used to it,

I've just learned to turn it off

Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past

I know every scene by heart,

they all went by so fast

If he's passin' back this way,

I'm not that hard to find

Tell him he can look me up if he's got the time.