I got my first real six-string   Bought it at the five-and-dime   Played it till my fingers bled    Was the summer of '69      Me and some guys from school   Had a band and we tried real hard   Jimmy quit, Jody got married   I shoulda known we'd never get far      Oh 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 evenings down at the drive-in   And that's when I met you      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 yeeaahh      Back in the summer of '69 Ohhhhh      Man we were killin' time   We were young and restless   We needed to unwind   I guess nothin' 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   Think about you wonder what went wrong      Standin' on your mama's porch   You told me that it 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      Ohh yeeaahh.... Back in the summer of '69   uhh huh...it was the summer of 69   Ohhh Yeeaahh....me and my baby in 69   Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh...ho....   it was the summer....the summer, the summer of 69   YEAH