It was Labor Day weekend I was seventeen

I bought a Coke and some gasoline

And I drove out to the county fair

When I saw her for the first time

She was standing there

in the ticket line

And it all started right then and there

Oh, a sailor's sky made a perfect sunset

And that's the day I'll never forget

I had a barbecue stain

on my white t shirt

She was killing me in that miniskirt

Skippin' rocks on the river

by the railroad tracks

She had a suntan line and red lipstick

I worked so hard for that first kiss

And a heart don't forget

something like that

Well, it was five years

later on a southbound plane

I was headed down to New Orleans

To meet some friends

of mine for Mardi Gras

When I heard a voice from the past

Comin' from a few rows back

And when I looked, I couldn't

believe just what I saw

She said, "I bet you don't remember me"

And I said, "Only every other memory"

I had a barbecue stain

on my white t shirt

You were killing me in that miniskirt

Skippin' rocks on the river

by the railroad tracks

You had a suntan line and red lipstick

I worked so hard for that first kiss

And a heart don't forget

something like that

Like an old photograph

Time can make a feeling fade

But the memory of the first love

Never fades away

I had a barbecue stain

on my white t shirt

She was killing me in that miniskirt

Skippin rocks on the river

by the railroad tracks

She had a sun tan line and red lipstick

I worked so hard for that first kiss

And a heart don't forget,

no a heart don't forget

I said, "A heart don't

forget something like that"

Oh, not something like that