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[Intro]


[Verse 1]

   I got my fi

rst real six-s

tring

   Bought it a

t the five-and

-dime

   Played it '

til my fingers

 bled

   It was the 

summer of '69

[Verse 2]

   Me and some

 guys from sch

ool

   Had a band 

and we tried r

eal hard

   Jimmy quit,

 Jody got marr

ied

   I shoulda k

nown we'd neve

r get far

[Chorus 1]
            
    Oh, when I

 
 look back now
             
    That summe

            
r seemed to la

st forever
           
    And if I h

ad the choice
             
    Yeah, I'd 

       
always wanna b

e there
            
    Those were

             
 the best days

       
 of my life

[Instrumental]
()   

[Verse 3]

    Ain't no u

se in complain

in'

    When you g

ot a job to do

    Spent my e

venin's down a

t the drive in

    And that's

 when I met yo

u, yeah

[Chorus 2]
            
    Standin' o

       
n your mama's 

porch
             
    You told m

             
e that you'd w

ait forever
            
    Oh, and wh

       
en you held my

 hand
             
    I knew tha

         
t it was now o

r never
            
    Those were

             
 the best days

       
 of my life
(           
         Oh ye

             
ah        Back

              
 in the summer

            
 of '69     Oh

hh

[Bridge]
             
   Man, we wer

  
e killin' time
        
We were young 

and restless
   
We needed to u

nwind
           
   I guess not

              
hin' can last 

   
forever, forev

er no

[Instrumental]
        x2

[Verse 4]

   And now the

 times are cha

ngin'

   Look at eve

rything that's

 come and gone

   Sometimes w

hen I play tha

t old six-stri

ng

   I think abo

ut you, wonder

 what went wro

ng

[Chorus 3]
            
    Standin' o

       
n your mama's 

porch
             
    You told m

            
e that it'd la

st forever
            
    Oh, and wh

       
en you held my

 hand
             
    I knew tha

         
t it was now o

r never
            
    Those were

             
 the best days

       
 of my life

[Outro]
(           
         Oh ye

             
ah        Back

              
 in the summer

             
 of '69     Uh

 
-huh
              
It was the sum

             
mer of '69.   

    
 Oh yeah
              
Me and my baby

             
 in '69.      

  
 Ohhhhh, oh
             
         It wa

             
s the summer, 

              
summer, summer

     
 of '69
            
Yeah

            

  

(Fade out)