it was labor day weekend i was seventeen i bought a coke and a 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 a day i ll never forget i had a bbq stain on my white t shirt she was killing me in that mini skirt 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 a heart don t forget something like that well it was five years later on a south bound 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 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 bbq stain on my white t shirt you were killing me in that mini skirt skipping rocks on the river railroad tracks you had a suntan line and red lipstick i worked so hard for that first kiss and a heart don t forget somethin like that like an old photograph time can make a feeling fade but the memory of a first love never fades away i had a bbq stain on my white t shirt she was killing me in that mini skirt 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 a heart don t forget no a heart don t forget i said a heart don t forget somethin like that oh no not somethin like that