D-I got my first real six-string A-Bought it at the five-and-dime D- Played it till my fingers bled A -It was the summer of '69 D-Me and some guys from school A-Had a band and we tried real hard D -Jimmy quit and Jody got married A-I shoulda known we'd never get far Bm -Oh when I A look back now D - That summer seemed to G last forever Bm - And if I A had the choice D -Ya I'd always G wanna be there Bm - Those were the best days of my life- D D -Ain't no use in complainin' A -When you got a job to do D - Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in A -And that's when I met you Standin' 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 Back in the summer of '69 F Man we wereBm killin' time We were C young and restless We Bm needed to unwind F I guess Bm nothin' can last foreC ver - forever, no And now the times are changin' Look at everything that's come and gone Sometimes when I play that old six-string I think about ya wonder what went wrong Standin' on your Mama's porch You told me it would last forever Oh the way you held my hand I knew that it was now or never Those were the best days of my life Back in the summer of '69