Summer Of 69

I got my first real six-string

Bought it at the five-and-dime

Played it till my fingers bled

It was summer of '69

Me and some guys from school

We had a band and we tried real hard

But Jimmy quit and

Joey 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

Spent my evenings 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 summer of '69

Man, we were killin' time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothin' can last forever

Forever, yeah

Standin' on your mama's porch

You told me that it'd last forever

Oh, the way you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Back in the summer of '69 '69 (Back in the summer of '69) ('69)

It was the summer of '69