Intro: C# F# (2x)
Verse 1
C# F#
Mamma, she's still got that picture
C# F#
Of me and Katie on homecomin' night
C# F#
She looked pretty in that fancy dress
C# F#
But that girl was a barefoot blue jean princess
Pre-Chorus:
Bb Ab
A hand full of rocks and daddy's pine ladder
F#
Sure did come in handy
Bb Ab
For a teenage boy thinkin' all that mattered
F#
Was a kiss that taste like candy
C#
Back in the day we were wild and free
Ab
She was my dashboard drummer
Ab F#
Butterflies in the backseat
Bb Ab
Little footprints on my window
C#
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside
Ab F#
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine
Bb Ab F#
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank
Bb Ab F# (Let Ring)
While the water washed our innocence away
C#
Back in the day
Verse 2
C#
Friday nights I'd look up there in the bleachers
C#
And I can see her,
C#
with my letter man's jacket on
C#
And I still got this scar here on my right hand
C#
From when Bobby told her she deserved a better man
Pre-Chorus
Bb Ab
Aw.. She hung right with me down in panama city
F#
Raisin' hell on our senior trip
Bb
and man ain't it funny
Ab
it gets the best of me
F#
And I just can't forget
I just can't forget
C#
Back in the day we were wild and free
Ab
She was my dashboard drummer
F#
Butterflies in the backseat
Bb Ab
Little footprints on my window
C#
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside
Ab F#
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine
Bb Ab F#
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank
Bb Ab F#
While the water washed our innocence away
Bridge:
Ab
Summer was over
F#
College was callin' man I had to watch her leave
Ab Bb F#
But I still wonder if she ever thinks of me
C#
'Cause back in the day we were wild and free
Ab
She was my dashboard drummer
F#
Butterflies in the backseat
Bb Ab
Little footprints on my window
C#
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside
Ab F#
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine
Bb Ab F#
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank
Bb Ab F#
While the water washed our innocence away
B
Feels like yesterday
C#
Back in the day
C#
Back in the day