Summer of '69 (Live)

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 should'a known we'd never get far

But 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

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

Standing on your mama's porch

You told me that you'd wait forever

And when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

It was 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, yeah

And now the times are changin'

Look at everything that's come and gone

Sometimes when I play my old six-string

Think about ya, wonder what went wrong

Standing on your mama's porch

You told me it would last forever

And when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

It was the summer of '69

It was the summer of '69

Just me and my baby in a '69

It was the summer

It was the summer

Yeah, the summer of '69