Summer Of 69

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the Five and Dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far

Oh, and when I look back now
The summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

Hey, ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenings down at the drive-in
And that's where I met you, yeah

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh, and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Oh, yeah, back in the summer of '69

Ooh
Man, we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever, forever, no
Yeah

And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's coming down
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you and what went wrong

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that'd wait forever
Oh, and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Oh, yeah, back in the summer of '69, oh

It was the summer of '69, oh, yeah
Me and my baby in '69, oh, oh
It was the summer, the summer of '69, oh, yeah