I Remember

 

It’s been a few years since I went to the county fair,

I hadn’t been home in a while and it was good see my old friends there.

She was standing by tractor pull in a white cotton dress,

And just that quick I felt a pounding inside my chest.

 

So I walked right up and said hello,

Her hesitation made me think she didn’t know,

I looked away and kicked at the dirt,

It wasn’t ‘til she reached out and pulled at my shirt,

That I saw her smile and realized she remembered too,

 

Holding hands, an ice cream meal,

The first kiss stolen on the Ferris wheel,

A slow walk home to her daddy’s porch,

An endless sky, I can still see that sky,

And the stars in her eyes, I remember.

 

I had so many thoughts, I didn’t know what to say,

So, I asked about her mom and dad, she said they’d passed away,

The old house was holding up, but it could use a coat of paint,

I said I had some free time, but Van Gogh I ain’t.

 

Then the John Deere roared, and I asked her to dance,

I’d waited so long for a second chance,

She started to laugh, but then some mud caught her hair,

I took her by the hand and said I didn’t care,

And I pulled her in and once again, the memory shot right through,

 

Holding hands, an ice cream meal,

The first kiss stolen on the Ferris wheel,

A slow walk home to her daddy’s porch,

An endless sky, I can still see that sky,

And the stars in her eyes, I remember.

 

And we danced beneath a pale blue moon,

All the years that passed us by, melted like a frost in June,

And there we were,

 

Holding hands, sharing an ice cream meal,

Stealing a kiss on the Ferris wheel,

Slow walking home to her daddy’s porch,

Under an endless sky, that same endless sky,

And stars in her eyes, that I remember.

The same stars I remember, I remember.