Summer Of '69-Pelle Carlberg

[00:04.50]I got my first real six-string [00:07.50]Bought it at the five-and-dime [00:11.50]Played it till my fingers bled [00:14.50][02:51.50][03:09.50]It was the summer of '69 [00:17.50]Me and some guys from school [00:21.50]Had a band and we tried real hard [00:24.50]Jimmy quit and Jody got married [00:28.50]I shoulda known we'd never get far [00:32.50]Oh when I look back now [00:35.50]That summer seemed to last forever [00:38.50]And if I had the choice [00:42.50]Yeah - I'd always wanna be there [00:45.50]Those were the best days of my life [00:56.50]Ain't no use in complainin' [00:59.50]When you got a job to do [01:02.50]Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in [01:07.50]And that's when I met you [01:09.50][02:22.50]Standin' on your mama's porch [01:13.50]You told me that you'd wait forever [01:16.50][02:29.50]Oh and when you held my hand [01:20.50][02:32.50]I knew that it was now or never [01:23.50][02:36.50]Those were the best days of my life [01:29.50][02:42.50][02:55.50]Oh yeah [01:32.50][02:44.50]Back in the summer of '69 [01:36.50][02:49.50][03:03.50]Ohhh [01:40.50]Man we were killin' time [01:43.50]We were young and restless [01:45.50]We needed to unwind [01:48.50]I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no [01:57.50][03:17.50]Yeah [02:09.50]And now the times are changin' [02:12.50]Look at everything that's come and gone [02:15.50]Sometimes when I play that old six-string [02:19.50]I think about ya wonder what went wrong [02:25.50]You told me that it'd last forever [02:58.50]Me and my baby, '69