Summer of '69
Recording Artist: MxPx
Writers: Jim Vallance
Bryan Adams
Date Written: January 1984
Albums: On The Cover (Tooth & Nail Records, November 28, 1995)
FIX Audio:
Audio:
 
Tom Wisniewski: guitar, background vocals
Mike Herrera: vocals, guitar, bass
Yuri Ruley: drums
 
Produced by Bob Moon and MxPx.
Cover Versions:
Also recorded by Bowling For Soup, DJ Otzi, Emily's Toybox, Janet Theory, Jive Bunny, WC Experience, Catherine Porter, Bryan Adams, John H featuring Barfalk
Comments:
MxPx have loads of energy, you can't fault them on that. Regardless, this a a pretty lame punk-ska cover of "Summer of '69". No new creative territory is carved out here.

MxPx is an abbreviation for Magnified Plaid, the name under which the band previously recorded.

Also see comments for the Bryan Adams version of Summer of '69.
Lyrics:
photo: MXPX >
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 "Judy" 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