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 should've known we'd never get far

Oh, when I look back now

That 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

♪

Ain't no use in complainin'

When you got a job to do

I spent my evenings down at the drive-in

And that's when 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, oh

♪

Man, we were killin' time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothing can last forever

Forever, no

Yeah

♪

And now the times are changin'

Look at everything that's come and gone

Sometimes when I play that old six-string

I think about you, wonder what went wrong

Standin' on your mama's porch

You told me that it'd last 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, uh-huh

It was the summer of '69, oh, yeah

Me and my baby in '69, oh, oh

♪

It was the summer, summer, summer of '69

(Yeah)