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    But when I look back now    That summer seemed 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 complainin'   When you got a job to do   Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in   And that's when I met you - ya      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   Back in the summer of '69      Man we were killin' time   We were young and restless   We needed to unwind   I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no...      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 ya'n wonder what went wrong      Standin' on your mama's porch   You told me it would 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      Back in the summer of '69