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It was Labor Day weekend I was seventeen |
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I bought a Coke and some gasoline |
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And I drove out to the county fair |
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When I saw her for the first time |
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She was standing there in the ticket line |
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And it all started right then and there |
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Oh, a sailor's sky made a perfect sunset |
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And that's the day I'll never forget |
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I had a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt |
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She was killing me in that miniskirt |
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Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks |
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She had a suntan line and red lipstick |
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I worked so hard for that first kiss |
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And a heart don't forget something like that |
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Well, it was five years later on a southbound plane |
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I was headed down to New Orleans |
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To meet some friends of mine for Mardi Gras |
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When I heard a voice from the past |
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Comin' from a few rows back |
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And when I looked, I couldn't believe just what I saw |
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She said, "I bet you don't remember me" |
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And I said, "Only every other memory" |
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I had a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt |
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You were killing me in that miniskirt |
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Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks |
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You had a suntan line and red lipstick |
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I worked so hard for that first kiss |
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And a heart don't forget something like that |
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Like an old photograph |
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Time can make a feeling fade |
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But the memory of the first love |
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Never fades away |
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I had a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt |
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She was killing me in that miniskirt |
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Skippin rocks on the river by the railroad tracks |
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She had a sun tan line and red lipstick |
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I worked so hard for that first kiss |
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And a heart don't forget, no a heart don't forget |
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I said, "A heart don't forget something like that" |
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Oh, not something like that |