I was twenty and she was eighteen   We were just as wild as we were green   In the ways of the world   She picked me up in that red rag top   We were free of the folks and hiding from the cops   On a summer night runnin’ all the red lights   We parked way out in a clearin’ in a grove    And the night was as hot as a coal burnin’ stove,   We were cookin’ the gas   We would have to last         In the back of that red rag top   She said please don’t stop         Well the very first time her mother met me   Her green-eyed girl was a mother to be for 2 weeks   I was out of a job and she was in school   Life was fast and the world was cruel   We were young and wild,    We decided not to have a child   So we did what we did and we tried to forget   And we swore up and down there would be no regrets   In the morning light   But on the way home that night         On the back of that red rag top   She said please don’t stop   Lovin’ me         We took one more trip around the sun   It was all make believe in the end   No I can’t say where she is today   I can’t remember who I was back then         Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins   And there’s no such thing as what might’ve been   That’s a waste of time   Drive you outta your mind   I was stopped at a red light just yesterday   Beside a young girl in a cabriolet   And her eyes were green   And I was in an old scene         I was back in that red rag top   On the day she stopped   Lovin’ me   I was back in that red rag top   On the day she stopped   Lovin’ me