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Something Like That

Album: A Place in the Sun (1999)
Charted: 28
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  • 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 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
    And a heart don't forget something like that

    Well 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
    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 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
    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 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
    And 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 Writer/s: Keith Follese, Rick Ferrell
    Publisher: Anthem Entertainment, BMG Rights Management, Sentric Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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  • Addy from Fort Smith Tim McGraw is great love this song best tho
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