If it's Labor Day weekend, I was 17
I bought a Coke and some gasoline
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 a date I'll never forget
I had a barbecue stand on my white t-shirt
She was killing me in that miniskirt
Skipping 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 heart don't forget, something like that
It was five years later on a southbound plane
I was headed down to New Orleans
To meet some friends of mine for the Mardi Gras
When I heard a voice from the past
Coming 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 stand on my white t-shirt
She was killing me in that miniskirt
Skipping rocks on the river by the railroad tracks
She had a suntan line and red lipstick





She had a suntan line and red lipstick
I worked so hard for that first kiss
And heart don't forget, something like that
And like an old photograph
Time can make a feeling fade
But the memory of the first love
Never fades away
I had a barbecue stand on my white t-shirt
barbecue stain on my white t-shirt she was killing me in that miniskirt skipping rocks on the river
by the railroad track you had a suntan light and red lipstick 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
now i'm not something like it