Intro: C F x2 
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) 
Am              G 
A hand full of rocks and daddy's pine ladder 
F 
Sure did come in handy 
Am                  G                  
For a teenage boy thinkin' all that mattered 
      F 
Was a kiss that taste like candy 
        (Chorus)  
C                                    
Back in the day we were wild and free 
G 
She was my dashboard drummer 
G                         F 
Butterflies in the backseat 
Am                 G 
Little footprints on my window 
C 
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside 
     G                                 F 
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine 
Am                  G                    F 
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank 
      Am            G                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) 
      Am                     G          
Aw.. She hung right with me down in panama city 
        F 
Raisin' hell on our senior trip  
     Am             
and man ain't it funny  
     G 
it gets the best of me 
    F                
And I just can't forget 
 
I just can't forget 
     (Chorus) 
C  
Back in the day we were wild and free 
G 
She was my dashboard drummer 
                      F 
Butterflies in the backseat 
           Am            G 
Little footprints on my window 
C 
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside 
           G                           F 
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine 
          Am              G              F 
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank 
          A#m                 G#         F#(Let Ring) 
While the water washed our innocence away 
 
Back in the day   (Low F# Build-up)  
      (BRIDGE) 
 G        
Summer was over 
                         F 
College was callin' man I had to watch her leave 
G                             Am        F 
But I still wonder if she ever thinks of me 
     (CHORUS) 
C                                    
'Cause back in the day we were wild and free 
G 
She was my dashboard drummer 
                      F 
Butterflies in the backseat 
         Am              G 
Little footprints on my window 
C                           
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside 
           G                            F 
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine 
         Am              G               F 
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank 
          Am                 G          F 
While the water washed our innocence away 
A# 
Feels like yesterday 
C 
Back in the day 
C                 End C  
Back in the day