D I got my first real six-stringA Bought it at the five-and-dimeD Played it til my fingers bledA It was the summer of '69D Me and some guys from schoolA Had a band and we tried real hardD Jimmy quit and Jody got marriedA I shoulda known we'd never get farHmi Oh when I look back nowD That summer seemed to last foreverHmi And if I had the choiceD Ya - I'd always wanna be thereHmi Those were the best days of my lifeD Ain't no use in complainin'A When you got a job to doD Spent my evenin's down at the drive-inA And that's when I met you-yaHmi A Standin' on your Mama's porchD G You told me that you'd wait foreverHmi A Oh and when you held my handD G I knew that it was now or neverHmi A D Those were the best days of my lifeF Ami Man we werekillin' time We were young and restless We needed to unwind I guess nothin' can last forever - 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