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 


[Refrão]

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 


[Refrão]
 
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