Summer of 69
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I got my first real six-string - bought it at the five & dime
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played it till my fingers bled - It was the summer of '69
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me and some guys from school - had a band and we tried real hard
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jimmy quit and jody got married - would have known we'd never get far
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oh when i look back now - that summer seemed to last forever
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and if i had the choice ya i'd always wanna be there
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those were the best days of my life
Ain't no use in complainin' - when you got a job to do
spent my evenings down at the drive in - and that's when i met you - ya
standing on your mother'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
back in the summer of '69
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man we were killin' time
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we were young and reckless - we needed to unwind
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i guess nothing can last forever...
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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
standing on your mother'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
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