Riffs

Intro

Verse 1

I got my first real six-string

Bought it at the five-and-dime

Played it ’til my fingers bled

It was the summer of ‘69

Verse 2

Me and some guys from school

Had a band and we tried real hard

Jimmy quit, Jody got married

I shoulda known we’d never get far

Chorus 1

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

Instrumental

Verse 3

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

Chorus 2

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 ‘69Ohhh

Bridge

Man, we were killin’ time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothin’ can last forever, forever no

Instrumental

Verse

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

Chorus 3

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

Outro

Oh yeah - - - Back in the summer of ‘69Uh-huh

It was the summer of ‘69. Oh yeah

Me and my baby in ‘69. Ohhhhh, oh

It was the summer, summer, summer of ‘69

Yeah    

(Fade out)