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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 sky made a perfect sunset
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And that's a 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 killin' me in that mini-skirt
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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 and a
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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 headin' 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 ev'ry other memory"
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I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt
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You were killin' me in that mini-skirt
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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 and a
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Heart don't forget something like that
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Like an old photograph time can make a feeling fade
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But the mem'ry of the first love never fades away
(Note: Do two quick strums for the next six chords)
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I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt
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She was killing me in that mini-skirt
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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 and a
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Heart don't forget
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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
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