1969

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:44 pm

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it til my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you

Standin' on your Mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when 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

Man we were killin' 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

Sketch · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:45 pm

1969... in the sunshine

Flowthgin · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:03 pm

1969 is also a dumb movie with Winona Ryder in it.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:17 pm

Well it's 1969 okay
All across the USA
It's another year
For me and you
Another year
With nothing to do

Last year I was 21
I didn't have a lot of fun
And now I'm gonna be 22
I say oh my and a boo hoo
And now I'm gonna be 22
I say oh my and a boo hoo

It's 1969 okay
All across the USA
It's another year
For me and you
Another year
With nothing to do
Another year
With nothing to do
It's 1969

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Thank you Drinky and Sketchy...much better.

T. P. Warfare · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:54 pm

Adams was 9 1/2 the summer of '69.

jagged · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:29 pm

Terms Of Psychic Warfare Wrote:

Adams was 9 1/2 the summer of '69.

Thanks Spoony...heard this on the radio yesterday and was wondering about that...I would've never remembered to look it up though

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:31 pm

That song is fucking brilliant. Garrrrrrrrrbage, but fucking brilliant. I wish that I had written it.

T. P. Warfare · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:34 pm

Maybe Jim Vallance is older than Adams and the song was about his memories. Or maybe the date just sounded right.

Chrome_CW · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:19 am

Hey, doesn't that RYAN ADAMS guy sing that song?? :gir:

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