I got my first real six string
Bought it at the Five and Dime
Played it 'til my fingers 1
Was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy 2 , Jody got married
I should've known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now
That 3 seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best 4 of my life

Hey!

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's 5 at the drive-in
And that's when I met you, yeah

Standin' on your mama's porch
You 6 me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those 7 the best days of my life - Oh yeah
Back in the summer of '69

Ohh

Man, we were killin' 8
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can 9 forever, forever, no

Yay!

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
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 '69 - Uh hu-huh
It was the summer of '69 - Ohh yeah
Me and my baby in a 69 - Ohhh
It was the summer
Summer, the summer of '69 - Hey