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, 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
Yeah, 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 evenings 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

Man, we were killin’ time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin’ can last forever, forever

And now the times are changin’
Look at everything that’s come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
Think about you, wonder what went wrong

Standin’ on your mama’s porch,
You told me that it 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

- Written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance. Appears on the album Reckless.