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
i was in a old scene

i was back in that red ragtop
on the day she stopped loving me
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