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 Coming from a few rows back 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