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, JULIE GOT MARRIED
SHOULD'VE KNOWN WE'D NEVER GET FAR.
OH! WHEN I LOOK BACK NOW,
THE SUMMER SEEMED TO LAST FOREVER
AND IF I HAD THE CHOICE,
YEAH! I COULD'VE SWORN I'D BE THERE.
THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE.

AIN'T NO USE IN COMPLAINING
WHEN YOU'VE GOT A JOB TO DO.
SPENT MY YOUNG YEARS DOWN AT THE DRIVE-IN,
AND THAT'S WHEN I MET YOU , YEAH!
STANDING ON YOUR MAMA'S PORCH,
YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU WOULD WAIT FOREVER.
OH! BUT WHEN YOU HELD MY HAND,
I KNEW THAT IT WAS NOW OR NEVER.
THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE!

WHOA! YEAH!
BACK IN THE SUMMER OF '69.

MAN! WE WERE JUST KILLING TIME
WE WERE YOUNG AND RESTLESS
WE NEEDED TO WIN ONE
I GUESS NOTHING CAN LAST FOREVER, FOREVER, YEAH!

AND NOW THE TIMES ARE A CHANGING,
LOOK AT EVERYTHING COME AND GO.
SOMETIMES WHEN I TAKE THAT OLD SIX-STRING,
TAKES ME BACK TO WHERE WE ALL WENT WRONG.
STANDING ON YOUR MAMA'S PORCH,
YOU TOLD ME IT WOULD LAST FOREVER.
OH! BUT WHEN YOU HELD MY HAND,
I KNEW THAT IT WAS NOW OR NEVER.
THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE!

(CHORUS)

IT WAS THE SUMMER OF '69,
WHOA! YEAH!
ME AND MY BABY IN '69
UH-HUH! WHOA! WHOA!
IT WAS THE SUMMER,
SUMMER,SUMMER OF '69!