I was 20 and she was 18

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 a summer night

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

Ooh it had to last





Chorus

In the back of that Red Ragtop

She said please don't stop



Well 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

and we swore up and down there would be no regrets

In the morning light

But on the way home that night



Chorus

On the back of that Red Ragtop

She said please don't stop

Lovin' me



Bridge

We took one more trip around the sun

but it was all make believe in the end

No I can't say where she is today

I can't remember who I was back then



Well you do what you do

and you pay for your sins

and there's no such thing as

what might have been

That's a waste of time

drive you outta your mind



I was stopped at a red light just yesterday

beside a young girl in a Cabriole

and her eyes were green and I was in an old scene



Chorus

I was back in that Red Ragtop

on the day she stopped lovin' me



I was back in that Red Ragtop

on the day she stopped lovin' me