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, Joey 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
Yeah I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days
of my life
<Interlude>
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 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
Back in the summer of '69
<Interlude>
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can
last forever forever, no
<Interlude>
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
<Interlude>
Back in the summer of '69
It was the summer of 69
me and my baby of 69
It was the summer
the summer of 69
Hey!
It was the 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, Joey 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
Yeah I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days
of my life
<Interlude>
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 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
Back in the summer of '69
<Interlude>
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can
last forever forever, no
<Interlude>
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
<Interlude>
Back in the summer of '69
It was the summer of 69
me and my baby of 69
It was the summer
the summer of 69
Hey!
It was the summer of 69
hout up
Let's make a night to remember
Let's make love so intender
Let's make a night to remember