I got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime Played it till my fingers bled, was the summer of 69 Me and some guys from school, had a band and we tried real hard Jimmy quit, Jody got married, should've known we'd never get far Oh, and I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever And if I had the choice, yeah, those won't all be there Those were the best days of my life Ain't no use in complaining, when you got a job to do Spend my evenings down at the drive-in, and that's when I met you, yeah Standing 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 69 Oh, and when we were killing time We were young and restless, we needed to unwind I guess nothing can last forever, forever, 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 you wondering what went wrong Standing 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 It was the summer of 69 Oh, yeah, me and my baby in 69 The summer, the summer, the summer of 69