I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it til my fingers bled
Was the summer of sixty-nine
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit, Jody got married,
I shouldve known wed never get far
Oh, when I look back now,
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, Id always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Aint no use in complainin
When youve got a job to do
Spent my evenings down at the drive-in
And thats when I met you, yeah
Standin on your mamas porch
You told me that youd 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, 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 thats come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you, wonder what went wrong
Standin on your mamas porch
You told me that itd 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, oh
It was the summer of sixty-nine, oh, yeah
Me and my baby in sixty-nine, oh
It was the summer, the summer, the summer of sixty-nine, yeah