Intro: G   Am 
 
G 
I was twenty and she was eighteen 
         Am 
We were just about as wild as we were green  
        G                 Am 
In the ways of the world 
     G 
She picked me up in that red ragtop  
         Am              
We were free of the folks, hiding from the cops  
      G                            Am 
On a summer night, runnin' all the red lights 
        G 
And we parked way out at a clearing in a grove 
         Am 
And the night was as hot as a coal burning stove 
         G                       Am 
We were cookin' with gas, ooh it had to last 
 
 
                     C   G    Am 
In the back of that red ra---gtop 
          C      G     Am 
She said please don't stop 
 
Am 
 
          G 
Well the very first time her mother met me 
     Am 
Her green eyed girl had been a mother to be  
     G         Am 
For two weeks 
       G 
I was out of a job and she was in school 
    Am 
But life was fast and the world was cruel 
         G                                 Am 
We were young and wild, we decided not to have a child 
       G 
So we did what we did and we tried to forget 
        Am 
And we swore up and down there would be no regrets  
        G                             Am 
In the morning light, but on the way home that night 
 
                     C   G    Am 
On the back of that red ra---gtop 
          C      G     Am 
She said please don't stop 
       G    Am 
Lovin' me 
 
         C        G     Am        G 
We took one more trip around the sun 
            C          G            Am 
But it was all make believe in the end 
      C         G        Am    Em 
No I can't say where she is today 
          Am7                    Bm   C   Am 
I can't remember who I was back then 
 
G    Am 
 
         G                        
Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins 
            Am 
And there's no such thing as what might have been 
          G                       Am 
That's a waste of time, drive you outta your mind 
       G 
I was stopped at a red light just yesterday 
  Am                                        G 
Beside a young girl in a Cabriolet and her eyes were green  
                 Am 
And I was in an old scene 
 
                   C   G     Am 
I was back in that red ra---gtop 
        C   G   Am 
On the day she stopped 
       G    Am 
Lovin' me 
                   C   G     Am 
I was back in that red ra---gtop 
        C   G   Am 
On the day she stopped 
       G    Am 
Lovin' me 
 
 
Outro: G    Am