I got my first (1)____ six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers (2)____
Was the (3)______ of sixty-nine
Me and some guys from (4)______
Had a (5)____ and we tried real (6)____
Jimmy quit, Jody got (7)_______
I should've known we'd never get (8)___
Oh, when I look (9)____ now
That summer seemed to (10)____ forever
And if I had the (11)______
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain't no use in complainin'
When you've got a (12)___ to do
Spent my (13)________ down at the drive-in
And that's when I (14)___ you, yeah
Standin' on your mama's (15)_____
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh, and when you (16)____ my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Oh, yeah
Back in the summer of sixty-nine, oh
Man, we were killin' time,
we were young and (17)________
We needed to (18)______
I guess nothin' can last forever, forever, no
Yeah
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 you, wonder what went (19)_____
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that it'd last forever
Oh, and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Oh, yeah
Back in the summer of sixty-nine, oh
It was the summer of sixty-nine, oh, yeah
Me and my baby in sixty-nine, oh
It was the summer, the summer,
the summer of sixty-nine, yeah