Summer (The First Time) - Millie Jackson

Twas a hot afternoon, the last day of June

And the sun was a demon

The clouds were afraid, 110 in the shade

And the pavements were steaming

I told Billy Ray in his red Chevrolet

I needed time for some thinking

I was just walkin' by when I looked in her eye

And I swore it was winkin'

She was thirty-one and I was seventeen

I knew nothin' 'bout love, she knew everything

But I sat down beside her on a front porch swing

And wondered what the coming night would bring

The sun closed her eyes as it climbed in the sky

And it started to swelter

Sweat trickled down the front of her gown

And I thought it would melt her

She threw back her hair like I wasn’t there

And she sipped on a Julep

Her shoulders were bare and I tried not to stare

When I looked at her two lips

And then she looked at me, I heard her softly say

I know you’re young, you don’t know what to do or say

But stay with me until the sun has gone away

And I will chase the boy in you away

And then she smiled and we talked for a while

Then we walked for a mile to the sea

We sat on the sand and a boy took her hand

But I saw the sunrise as a man

Ten years have gone by since I looked in her eye

But the memory lingers

I go back in my mind to the very first time

And feel the touch of her fingers