Intro: G, G, Am, Am G G Am Am I was twenty and she was eighteen. We were just about as wild as we were G Am green in the ways of the world G G Am Am She picked me up in that red ragtop. We were free of the folks and hiding G G Am Am from the cops on a summer night, running all the red lights G G We'd park way out in a clearing in a grove Am Am And the night was as hot as a coal-burning stove G G Am Am We were cooking with gas. knew it had to last C G Am Am In the back of that red ragtop C G Am Am She said please don't stop G G Well the very first time her mother met me Am Am G Am Her green-eyed girl had been a mother-to-be for two weeks G G I was out of job and she was in school Am Am And life was fast and the world was cruel G G Am Am We were young and wild. We decided not to have the child G G So we did what we did and we tried to forget Am Am And we swore up and down there would be no regrets G G Am Am In the morning light, but on the way home that night C G Am Am On the back of that red ragtop C G Am Am C Am She said please don't stop loving me C G Am Am We took one more trip around the sun C G Am Am But it was all make believe in the end C G Am Am And no I can't say where she is today C G Am Am I can't remember who I was back then GGAAm G G Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins Am Am And there's no such thing as what might have been G G Am Am That's a waste of time, Drive you out of your mind G G I was stopped at a red light just yesterday Am Am Beside a young girl in a cabriolet G G Am Am And her eyes were green. And I was in an old scene C G Am Am I was back in that red ragtop C G Am Am On the day she stopped loving me CGAAm C G Am I was back in that red ragtop C G Am Am On the day she stopped loving me Repeat G G Am Am out