Songfacts®:

• Co-written by Garth Brooks, his wife Sandy Mahl-Brooks, and guitarist Pat Alger, this song - probably a fantasy - is about a youth who loses his virginity to an older woman while he is working on her farm miles from anywhere. Though not in any way sexually explicit, the listener is left in no doubt as to what happened after he'd drunk his coffee. Such encounters are not uncommon either in real life or in fiction; probably the best known cinematic example is the 1967 film The Graduate - based on the novel of the same name - in which an introverted youth is seduced by a bored and totally wanton housewife - Mrs. Robinson. A less sordid encounter occurs in the 1971 film Summer Of '42 wherein a young war widow has a liaison with a precocious youth, a scenario more in keeping with this uptempo but sensitive Garth Brooks number in which two strangers are drawn together by loneliness and circumstances, and where the youth in question is haunted by this transient experience for the rest of his life.
  
  A paradox here is that such sexual encounters are considered taboo when the older party is male and the teen is a young girl, while a young man whose virginity is taken by an experienced older woman is simply undergoing a rite of passage. >>>

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  Alexander Baron - London, England
• Introducing this song at a showcase in Nashville in 2016, Garth Brooks explained: "There's a seed and from that seed some people might call exaggeration, some people might call it journalistic liberties, but I think you take that seed and you run with it and then you start to paint the picture.
  
  I was lucky enough to date some girls in high school, and this is a song about one of those girls. She was a senior, I was a junior, and that was the seed. This is what came out of that."
• Brooks and Alger had to go back to the drawing board a couple times because Brooks' producer, Allen Reynolds, hated the song. Alger suspects the earlier versions placed too much emphasis on the physical rather than emotional components for Reynolds' taste. The songwriters didn't take Reynolds' opinion lightly because he was also an accomplished songwriter himself, with hits like "Five O'Clock World" by the Vogues and "Wrong Road Again" by Crystal Gayle to his credit.
• Brooks wrote of the song in his 2017 book, The Anthology Part 1: The First Five Years: "I love the song simply because it talks about great sex with two people that share a fantastic moment, with no regrets and no hesitation. And it kind of fills the needs of both partners, in two different ways, but completes the puzzle in one tremendous way."
• Brooks relied on Trisha Yearwood to bring the height to the chorus, and it was a tall order. "Garth asked me to sing both parts because the third was too high for him," she explained in The Anthology Part 1. "So on the record, I am doing my best Garth impersonation and then I added the higher harmony. Trust me, those harmonies were not easy to sing."
• This is the fourth and final single from Brooks' fifth studio album, The Chase. It peaked at #1 on the Country chart, giving the singer his 11th chart-topping single.
• The Chase debuted at #1 in America, ending Billy Ray Cyrus' 17-week reign at the top with his debut album, Some Gave All, and preventing Madonna from reaching the apex with her Erotica album. Of course, it also peaked at #1 on the Country Albums chart.
• When Brooks was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2012, Bob Seger sang this as part of a tribute to the singer.