My 40th First Date Anniversary

Intro

In Arizona, forty years ago today, on May 31st, 1986, I took a lady out for our first dinner at Garcia's Mexican food. She was a decade older than I was, but age doesn't matter for a love that's contained, and it started to be wonderful in our lives.

Verse

I met this woman named Patricia many years ago in a little old church on Van Buren Street in sixty eight. She wore a lovely blue satin dress, her two children were by her side, and I was only fourteen years of age, but it was the first leg of our ride.

Verse

But time was erased between that night, for someone else held her heart high, so I ran my teenage years ahead and forgot about that night. By the seventies, they had come and gone, and there were other girls I met. I spent time in California, Minnesota, and Oregon; I was set.

Chorus

Then our time had finally come, and her heart was free at last. My life had fallen apart so that I would cast my love. Then, in 1986, we had our first Arizona date. I picked up my future wife from her Mom and was not late. Then, I took her to the restaurant, and then we drove to the mountain park, and I fell in love with Patty, and the rest of it was fate.

Verse

As we sat on South Mountain, on a park bench near a table, we would reminisce about our history, going back through the years when we came within a few miles of each other. And three months later, I put a ring on her finger, and my heart was never happier, and our lives moved on further.

Outro

As the years went by, I wrote her many poems, and I sang to her with all my power, with love that made her warm. And we moved to Tennessee till the day God took her from my home, and I miss the blonde I married, but I sit here all alone. But I'll always love the girl that I had met in church one day, and someday my breath will leave me, and I'll find her somehow.

Chorus

Then our time had finally come, and her heart was free at last. My life had fallen apart so that I would cast my love. Then, in 1986, we had our first Arizona date. I picked up my future wife from her Mom, and I was not late. Then I drove her to the restaurant, then we drove to the mountain park, and I fell in love with Patty, and the rest was fate.