I was twenty and she was eighteen

We were just about as wild as we were green

In the ways of the world

She picked me up in that red ragtop

We were free of the folks and hiding from the cops

on the summernights running all the red lights

We parked way out in a clearing in a grove

and the night was as hot as a coal burning stove

we were cooking with gas

oh it had to last

Chorus

In the back of that red ragtop

She said please dont stop

Verse 2

The very first time her mother met me

Her green eyed girl had been a mother to be for two weeks

I was out of a job and she was in school

And 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

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 ragtop

she said please dont stop

loving me

We took one more trip around the sun

but it was all make beleive in the end

no i cantsay where she is today

i cant remember who i was back then

You do what you do and you pay for your sins

and theirs no such thing as what might have been

thats a waste of time

drive you out of your mind

i was stoped at a red light just yesterday

besides a young girl in a cabriolet

and her eyes were green

i was in a old scene

i was back in that red ragtop

on the day she stopped loving me

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