[D]

 

[D]I got my first real six string

[A]Bought it at the Five and Dime

[D]Played it 'til 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, Jody got married

[A]I should a 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]Yeah, I'd always [G]wanna be there

[Bm]Those were the [A]best days of my [D]life[A]

 

[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, yeah

 

[Bm]Standin' on your [A]mama's porch

[D]You told me that you'd [G]wait forever

[Bm]Oh and when you [A]held my hand

[D]I knew that it was [G]now or never

[Bm]Those were the [A]best days of my [D]life - Oh ye[A]ah!

Back in the summer of [D]'69

 

[A]Oh...

 

[F]Man, we were [Bb]killin' time

We were [C]young and restless

We ne[Bb]eded to unwind

[F]I guess [Bb]nothin' can last for[C]ever, forever, no[D]

 

Yeah![A]　[D]　[A]

 

[D]And now the times are changin'

[A]Look at everything that's come and gone

[D]Sometimes when I play that old six string

[A]I think about you, wonder what went wrong

 

[Bm]Standin' on your [A]mama's porch

[D]You told me that it'd [G]last forever

[Bm]Oh the way you [A]held my hand

[D]I knew that it was [G]now or never

[Bm]Those were the [A]best days of my [D]life - Oh ye[A]ah!

Back in the summer of [D]'69 - Uh- [A]huh...

It was the summer of [D]'69 - Oh ye[A]ah!

Me and my baby in [D]'69 - [A]Oh... oh![D]

It was the [A]summer

the summer, the summer of [D]'69 - Hey...[A]　[D]　[A]