It was Labor Day weekend, I was seventeen   I bought a Coke and 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 barbeque stain on my white T-shirt   She was killin' me in that mini skirt   Skippin' 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      It was five years later on a southbound plane   I was headin' 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 barbeque stain on my white T-shirt   You were killin' me in that mini skirt   Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks   You had a suntan line and red lipstick   I worked so hard for that first kiss   And 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 barbeque stain on my white T-shirt   She was killin' me in that mini skirt   Skippin' 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 something like that