Summer Of '69

I got my first real six string

Bought it at the five and dime

Played 'til my fingers bled

It 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

But when I look back now

The summer seems to last forever

And if I had the choice

Ya, I'd always wanna be there

Those were the best days of my life

Ain't no use in complaining

When you got a job to do

Spent my evening down at the drive in

And that's when I met you, Ya

Standing on a mama's porch

You told me that you'd wait forever

And when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69

Ya, Man we were killing time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothing can last forever, Ya

And now the times are changing

Look at everything that's come and gone

Sometimes when I play my old six string

I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Standing on a mama's porch

You told me it would last forever

And the way you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Back in summer of '69