Konkani Lyrics

✦ Verse 1

I got my first real six-string

Goychem nav kanar poddtogoch

Bought it at the five-and-dime

Thoimsor vochunk bhair sorlo

Played it till my fingers bled

Sobit rup tem polleun

It was the summer of '69

Jiv mhozo virun ghelo.

Me and some guys from school

Ek dis goyam hanv vetlo

Had a band and we tried real hard

Haves ballgun dovorlo

Jimmy quit and Jody got married

Xekim sobitkai polleun

I shoulda known we'd never get far

Goichi, voi hanv bhul’lo.

✦ Chorus

Oh when I look back now

Kitle te sobit madd

That summer seemed to last forever

Doria polleun jiv dhadoslo

And if I had the choice

Mogall lok Goencho

Ya - I'd always wanna be there

Mhojem mon jikun ghelo

Those were the best days of my life

Goyam hanv polleunkuch urlo.

✦ Verse 2

Ain't no use in complainin'

Padrin aunty vatter mevli

When you got a job to do

Gorom gorom cheav ghaili

Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in

Kal fest alslem sangunk lagli

And that's when I met you

Sorpatel anik bakri ghen yeili.

Standin' on your mama's porch

Jevonn kitu gostachem

You told me that you'd wait forever

Huim mak mellona titlem

Oh and when you held my hand

Sorpotelui ruchichem

I knew that it was now or never

Aye Pott bhorun hailem

Those were the best days of my life…Oh, yeah,

Hem khaxelponnam tem Goychem…Oh, yeah,

Back in the summer of '69, oh

Hem khaxelponnam tem Goychem.

✦ Bridge

Man we were killin' time

Goyantuch ravpa dista

We were young and restless

portun ghor vospa disna.

We needed to unwind

Portun ek dis jerul yetolo

I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no

Jaite dis hanv Goyant rautolo, rautolo…voi!

✦ Verse 3

And now the times are changin'

Goenkarank mhozo ho ulo

Look at everything that's come and gone

Goem samballun dovorai

Sometimes when I play that old six-string

Futt ghalpa zaite lok yetle

I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Ekchar tumi samballai

Standin' on your mama's porch

Girest sonskrutai Goenchi

You told me it would last forever

Voi ti koddi Karmelinachi

Oh the way you held my hand

Sogli Mogan ravai

I knew that it was now or never

Koxttank sangatan fuddo korai

Those were the best days of my life

Goyem sonvsarak fankoyai.

✦ Outro

Oh, yeah | Back in the summer of '69, uh-huh

Oh, yeah | Goem rakon dovorai… oh oh

It was the summer of '69…. Oh, yeah

Goem rakon dovorai… oh yeah

Me and my baby in a '69, oh, oh

Goem tumi samballai… oh oh

It was the summer, summer, summer of '69 (Yeah)

Goenkarponn tumi fuloyai, fuloyaaaaiiii