Red Ragtop Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

GI was twenty and she was eighteen

CWe were just about as wild as we were green in Gthe ways of the worldC

She'd pickG me up in that red ragtop

we were fCree of the folks and hiding from the cops

on a summGer night, runnin all the Cadd9red lights

so we'd pGark way out in a clearing in a grove

and the niCght was as hot as a coal burnin stove

we were coGokin with gas,

oh it haCadd9d to last

in the back of that Cred Grag Amtop

she said Cplease doGnt stoAmp

well the vGery first time her mother met me

her Cgreen eyed girl had been a mother to be foGr two weeksC

i was outG of a job and she was in school

Clife was fast and the world was cruel

we were Gyoung and wild,

we decided not to Chave a child

so we didG what we did and we tried to forget

and weC swore up and down there would be no regrets in theG morning light

but on the wayCadd9 home that night

on the back of that Cred Grag tAmop

she said pleaCse Gdont Amstop lovingG me Cadd9

we took Cone more Gtrip arAmound the sGun

and it was Call make bGelieve in the eAmnd

no iC cant say wGhere she iAms tGoday

i cant Amremember who i Gwas back Amthen

well you do wGhat you do

and you pay for your sins and theresC no such thing as what might have been

thats a wasGte of time,

drive you oCut of your mind

i was stoGpped at a red light just yesterday beside a young girl iCn a cabriolet

and her Geyes were green

and i was in an Cadd9old scene

i was back in thatC red Grag Amtop

on the Cday sGhe sAmtopped lovin Gme Cadd9

i was back in that Cred Grag tAmop

on the Cday sGhe Amstopped lovin Gme