It was Labor Day weekend I was seventeen 

I bought a Coke and some gasoline 

And I drove out to the County Fair 

And 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 barbecue stain on my white t-shirt 

She was killing me in that mini-skirt 

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 

A heart don't forget something like that 



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 

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 mini-skirt 

Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks



You had a sun tan line and red lipstick 

I worked so hard for that first kiss 

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 mini-skirt 

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 

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