**That Summer by Garth Brooks** (1993)

ABOUT THE SONG:
"That Summer" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Cam Bathras and Garth Brooks. It was released in April 1993 as the fourth and final single from his album The Chase and also appears on The Hits, The Ultimate Hits, The Limited Series and Double Live. It reached number-one on the Billboard Country Charts in 1993. The song was written by Brooks, Pat Alger, and Brooks' then-wife Sandy Mahl.
On the 1996 television special, The Garth Brooks Story, Garth talks about writing the song:
"That Summer started out as a single guy and a married woman meeting at a party. The married woman being ignored by whom she was with, and they snuck off together. Allen Reynolds told me, "Man, I just don't find myself pulling for these characters. It doesn't seem innocently cool." I was thinking that he was right. Going home that night in the truck I started singing she has a need to feel the thunder. Sandy started helping me write the chorus and we got the chorus done. Probably one of the neat things that I love about That Summer is that I think the song is very sexy."
The song is about a teenage boy "far from home" who goes to work for a "lonely widowed woman hellbent to make it on her own". The woman apparently lives on a wheat farm ("wheat fields as far as I could see").
The apparently much older woman slowly takes a liking to the young boy, to the point where one night she dons a dress "she hadn't worn in quite a while"; it is then implied by the rest of the second verse that the teenage boy loses his virginity by having sex with the more than willing older woman.
The third verse takes the now-adult man back to the scene of his coming of age, having not seen the woman (who has presumably died by then) since long ago. Although the man has been with several other women by this point, he still experiences flashbacks to his experience with the older woman.
"That Summer" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 8, 1993.

[@tiffaneylindsey7005]

Omg!!! It's actually him singing it!!! Makes me smile so hard... Am I the only person that can't ever find a Garth song that's not a cover???

[@KorriganTheGreat]

This youtuber saved us

[@zackunderwood3223]

Yeah, he does his best to make sure everyone pays to hear any of his music.

[@JessicaFranklin1995]

Garth Brooks is nonexistent on the internet

[@shawnfryrear1974]

Yeah I hate the wanna-be garths

[@robertlotito9998]

Amazon music has all the album he signed a deal with them

[@granite793]

I was 18, she was 48... I learned so much those few weeks

[@Lìven-good]

I was 13 drinking beer in the barn with my two older cousins just returning from boot camp one in the army one in the Marines they both had cowboy boots and Garth Brooks style shirts..Still do😂😂😂 my uncle Coom thought and still thinks he sounds just like Garth Brooks and when I return home 1500 mi away I'm guaranteed to hear the song at least 1/2 dozen tomes😂😂😂 good stuff great memories

[@DavidBurkett-gg5wt]

Dqvid burkett the most important ❤😊

[@TamikaWilkinson]

Hahah ❤ I gotta laugh ! I absolutely love your comment, this is my number 1 favourite song! It will never get old ! Ever ❤😊

[@TamikaWilkinson]

Pooh bears uncle 😅

[@TomFromYoutube]

Man I thought this story was going in a whole other direction.

[@userformerlyknownassquid8639]

Nothin wrong with learning from an older lady thats got something to teach

[@amazingautumn12]

One of his best songs ❤

[@georgemoore9860]

One of my favorite Garth songs

[@laderiusbryan1926]

This is one of my favorite country songs

[@joes9425]

Great song

[@SierraTango117]

Great story she broke him in good and broke his heart along the way.

[@mtichris12]

This song keeps it high and tight. Masterpiece.

[@tammiehardeman9286]

❤❤❤ this song.

[@coc8043]

He played that summer croke park Dublin Ireland. 2022.. l🔥💜legend of a man..

[@jenniferdijames1671]

What a good song Garth.

[@DavidBurkett-gg5wt]

David burkett has been in the most popular and exciting times ❤😊

[@sharplydressedrabbit3604]

This is a banger of a song, but the lyrics are sketchy lol

[@anglo-saxon9182]

Love it ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JosephSmith-id1bi]

I wonder why hes not on spotify

[@AmandaWilliams-o4p]

Thanks for adding.

[@rodbelding9523]

Not gonna lie, I was shocked this is the real song

[@swisha317]

Imagine if this was the other way around……He’d be in jail just for writing it lol

[@jeffreydaniels6547]

Truth that’s what’s sad

[@JessicaFranklin1995]

Greener than the grass by David Allan Coe is the reverse

[@dillionyarbrough5233]

Grate song about a statutory rape

[@mrkoy5047]

Pretty much. Isn't it weird how accepted it was back then. My dad's even said if anyone cared back then half of the town would've been arrested. I'm happy it's finally being brought to attention. But yeah awesome song lol

[@shifty198885]

I mean the lyrics say " Teenage kids too far from home" they could both be 18 🤷‍♂️

[@deliacastillo8741]

Get over it 😡 how old was the 18 y/o man !!!!!

[@mrkoy5047]

@@deliacastillo8741 we don't know he was 18 it never specifies. Even Garth has said the lyrics are weird

[@mikesands-jk2kx]

ever headed east and seen five hundred dead bucks dead on the highway and not hit one in the middle of the night doing one thirty thats hot hot i made it 1600hundred miles in 11.5five hundred miles the long way home

[@kords9288]

Stacys mom was worse lol

[@jeffreydaniels6547]

Good song but not exactly the best story