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 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 (hey)      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   (oh ya!)   Back in the summer of '69   (oh)   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   I think about you wonder what went wrong      Standin' on your mama's porch   You told me that it'd last forever   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 the summer of '69 (uh huh)   It was the summer of 69 (oh yeah)   Me and my baby in 69   Oooh, hey   It was the summer   Summer, Summer of 69   Hey