[00:23]Bought it at the five-and-dime [00:26]Played it til my fingers bled [00:29]It was the summer of '69
[00:33]Me and some guys from school
[00:36]Had a band and we tried real hard [00:39]Jimmy quit and Jody got married [00:43]I shoulda known we'd never get far
[00:47]Oh when I look back now
[00:50]That summer seemed to last forever [00:53]And if I had the choice [00:57]Ya - I'd always wanna be there [01:00]Those were the best days of my life
[01:11]Ain't no use in complainin'
[01:14]When you got a job to do [01:17]Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in [01:21]And that's when I met you
[01:24]Standin' on your Mama's porch
[01:27]You told me that you'd wait forever [01:31]Oh and when you held my hand [01:34]I knew that it was now or never [01:38]Those were the best days of my life [01:46]Back in the summer of '69
[01:55]Man we were killin' time
[01:56]We were young and restless [01:58]We needed to unwind [02:01]I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no
[02:22]And now the times are changin'
[02:25]Look at everything that's come and gone [02:28]Sometimes when I play that old six-string [02:32]I think about ya wonder what went wrong
[02:35]Standin' on your Mama's porch
[02:38]You told me it would last forever [02:42]Oh the way you held my hand [02:45]I knew that it was now or never [02:49]Those were the best days of my life [02:58]Back in the summer of '69...