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| D5 | A5 | |
| Me and some guys from school |
| D5 | |
| Had a band and we tried real hard |
| A5 | |
| Jimmy quit and Jody go | t married |
| I shoulda known we'd never get far |
| B5 | A5 | |
| But when I | look back now |
| D5 | G5 | |
| That summer seem | ed to last forever |
| B5 | A5 | |
| And if I | had the choice |
| D5 | G5 | |
| Yeah - I'd al | ways wanna be there |
| B5 A5~ |
| Those were the best days of my life |
| D5, A5, D5, A5 |
| D5 | A5 | |
| Ain't no use in complainin' |
| D5 | |
| When you got a job to do |
| A5 | |
| Spent my evenin's down a | t the drive-in |
| And that's when I met you - yeah |
| B5 | A5 | |
| Standin' on your | mama's porch |
| D5 | G5 | |
| You told me tha | t you'd wait forever |
| B5 | A5 | |
| Oh and when you | held my hand |
| D5 | G5 | |
| I knew that it wa | s now or never |
| B5 A5~ D5, A5 |
| Those were the best days of my life |
| D5 | A5 | |
| Oh yeah, bac | k in the summer of 69 |
| F5 | A#5 | |
| Yeah, we were kil | lin' time |
| C5 | |
| We were young and restless |
| A#5 | |
| We needed to unwind |
| F5 | A#5 | C5 | |
| I guess no | thin' can last forev | er - forever, no... |
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| D5 | A5 | |
| And now the times are a-changi | n' |
| D5 | |
| Look at everything that' | s come and gone |
| A5 | |
| Every time I play that old s | ix string |
| I think about ya'n wonder what went wrong |
| B5 | A5 | |
| Standin' on your | mama's porch, that's right |
| D5 | G5 | |
| You told me we | 'd would last forever |
| B5 | A5 | |
| Oh the way you | held my hand |
| D5 | G5 | |
| I knew that | it was now or never |
| B5 A5~ |
| Those were the best days of my life |
| D5, A5, D5, A5, D5, A5, D5, A5, D5, A5, D5, A5 |
| A5~ |
| Listen to song for strumming patterns and timing |