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I got my first real six-string |
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Bought it at the five-and-dime |
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Played it til my fingers bled |
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It was the summer of sixty-nine |
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Me and some guys from school |
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Had a band and we tried real hard |
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Jimmy quit and Jody got married |
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I shoulda know we'd never get far |
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Oh when I look back now |
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That summer seemed to last forever |
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And if I had the choice |
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Ya - I'd just wanna be there |
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Those were the best days of my life |
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Ain't no use in complainin' |
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When you got a job to do |
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Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in |
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And that's when I met you - yeah |
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Standin' on your mama's porch |
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You told me that you'd wait forever |
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Oh and when you held my hand |
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I knew that it was now or never |
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Those were the best days of my life |
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Oh, back in the summer of sixty-nine |
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Man we were killin' time |
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We were young and restless, we needed to unwind |
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I guess nothing can last forever, forever |
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And now the times are changin' |
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Look at everything that's come and gone |
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Sometimes when I play that old six-string |
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I think about ya - wonder what went wrong |
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Standin' on your mama's porch |
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You told me it would last forever |
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Oh the way you held my hand |
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I knew that it was now or never |
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Those were the best days of my life |
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Back in the summer of sixty-nine |
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Back in the summer of sixty-nine |
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Oh, back in the summer of sixty-nine |
