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 '69
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
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 evenin's 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
Back
in the summer of '69
Man
we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to
unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no
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 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
Back in the summer of '69