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^DI got my first real six string

^ABought it at the five and dime

^DPlayed it till my fingers bled

^AWas the summer of ’69



^DMe and some guys from school

^AHad a band and we tried real hard

^DJimmy quit and Jody got married

^A shoulda known we’d never get far



^HmiBut when I ^Alook back now

^DThat summer seemed to ^Glast forever

^HmiAnd if I ^Ahad the choice

^DYa - I’d always ^Gwanna be there

^HmiThose were the ^Abest days of my ^Dlife



^DAin’t no use in complainin’

^AWhen you got a job to do

^DSpent my evenin’s down at the drive-in

^AAnd that’s when I met you - ya



^HmiStandin’ on your ^Amama’s porch

^DYou told me that you’d ^Gwait forever

^HmiOh and when you ^Aheld my hand

^DI knew that it was ^Gnow or never

^HmiThose were the ^Abest days of my ^Dlife



^FMan we were ^Bkillin’ time

We were ^Cyoung and restless

We ^Bneeded to unwind

^FI guess ^Bnothin’ can last fo^Crever - forever, no...



^DAnd now the times are changin’

^ALook at everything that’s come and gone

^DSometimes when I play that old six string

^AI think about ya’n wonder what went wrong



^HmiStandin’ on your ^Amama’s porch

^DYou told me it would ^Glast forever

^HmiOh the way you ^Aheld my hand

^DI knew that it was ^Gnow or never

^HmiThose were the ^Abest days of my ^Dlife