Summer of '69 -- Bryan Adams

I got my first real six-string Bought it at the five-and-dime Played it 'till my fingers bled
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  should known we'd never get far
oh when I look back now  That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice   I had always wanna be there  Those were the best days of my life

Ain't no use in complaining  When you got a job to do Spent my evenings down at
the drive-in  And that's when I met you yeah  Standing 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 killing time  We were young and restless  We needed to unwind
I guess nothing can last forever - forever, no,yeah  And now the times are changing
Look at everything that's come and gone Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you, wonder what went wrong

Standing on your Mama's porch  You told me that it'd last forever
oh 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,uh-huh
it was the summer of 69,o yeah, me n my baby in 69
It was the summer of, the summer, summer of 69

In the Summer of '69, Bryan was 9 years old. He told us: "It's a very simple song about looking back on the summertime and making love. For me, the '69 was a metaphor for making love not about the year. I had someone in Spain ask me once why I wrote the first line 'I had my first real sex dream'... I had to laugh."                      (songfacts)