Summer Of '69 lyrics

I got my first
real six-string

Bought it at the
five-and-dime

Played it till
my fingers bled

It was the summer
of sixty-nine

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

Oh when I
look back now

That summer seemed
to last forever

Oh 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 complaining

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 yeah

Back in the
summer of sixty-nine

Man we were killin'
time, we were young
and restless
We needed to unwind

I guess nothing
can last forever
Forever, no

Yeah!

And now the
times are changing

Look at everything
that's come and gone

Sometimes when I
play that old six-string

I think about ya
Wonder what went wrong

Standin' on your
mama's porch

You told me it'd
last 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 the
summer of sixty-nine

It was the summer
of sixty-nine
Oh yeah

Back in the
summer of sixty-nine