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Date: July 16, 1999 Revised August 21, 1999
Album: A Place In The Sun
Written by:
Note: Thanks to Richard187@webtv.net (Richard Jones)
for lyric corrections.
SOMETHING LIKE THAT Tim McGraw
F
It was labor day weekend I was seventeen
Bb
I bought a coke and some gasoline
F Bb
And I drove out to the county fair
F
When I first saw her for the first time
Bb
She was standing there in the ticket line
F Bb
It all started right then and there
Bb C
Oh a sailor's sky made a perfect sun set
Bb C
And that's a day I'll never forget
CHORUS:
F C
I had a Bar B Q stain on my white T shirt
Bb
1.)She 2.)You 3.)She was killing me in the mini skirt
F C Bb
Skipping rocks on the river by the railroad tracks
F C
1.)She 2.)You 3.)She had a sun tan line and red lipstick
Bb
I worked so hard for that first kiss
F C F
And a heart don't for-get [3.) go to ending] something like that
F
Well it's five years later on a south bound plane
Bb
I was headed down to New Orleans
F Bb
To meet some friends of mine for the Marti Gras
F
When I heard a voice from the past
Bb
Coming from A few rows back
F Bb
And when I looked I couldn't believe just what I saw
C
She said, I bet you don't remember me
Bb C
And I said, only every other memory and
Go to chorus using 2.)
F C Bb F
Like an old photo-graph Time can make a feeling fade
Bb C
But the memory of the first love never fades away
ENDING:
Bb F Bb F
No a heart don't forget I said a heart don't forget
C F Bb F
Something like that oooooh Not something like that
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