<P> "That Summer" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks . It was released in April 1993 as the fourth 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 Garth Brooks, Pat Alger and Brooks' then - wife Sandy Mahl . </P> <P> On the 1996 television special, "The Garth Brooks Story", Garth talks about writing the song: </P> <P> "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 ." </P> <P> 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"). </P>

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