{t:Summer Of '69}
{st:Bryan Adams (1985)}
{c:intro and first verse with straight 8ths}
{c:strum: | D d d D d d d | d d d d d d D d |}
{c:intro}
[D]
{c:verse 1}
[D] I got my first real six string
[A] Bought it at the five-and-dime
[D] Played it till my fingers bled
[A] It was the summer of '69
{c:verse 2 (Change to swiss army strum | d - d u - u d u |}
[D] Me and some guys from school
[A] Had a band and we tried real hard
[D] Jimmy quit, Jodie got married
[A] Shoulda known we'd never get far
{soc}
[Bm] When I [A]look back now
[D] The summer seemed to [G]last forever
[Bm] And if I [A]had the choice
[D] Yeah, I'd always [G]want to be there
[Bm] Those were the [A]↓ best days of my [D]life
(2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, [A]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4)
{eoc}
{c:verse 3}
[D] Ain't no use in complaining
[A] When you got a job to do
[D] Spend my nights down at the drive-in
[A] And that's when I met you, yeah
{soc}
[Bm] Standing on your [A]mama's porch
[D] You told me that you'd [G]wait forever
[Bm] Oh, and when you [A]held my hand
[D] I knew that it was [G]now or never
[Bm]Those were the [A]↓ best days of my [D]life (2 3 4, 1 2 3) oh
[A]yeah (2 3 4, 1)
Back in the summer of [D]'69 (1 2 3 4, [A]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4)
{eoc}
{c:bridge}
[F] Man, we were [Bb]killing time. We were
[C]Young and restless, we [Bb]needed to unwind
[F] I guess [Bb]nothing can last for-[C]ever, for-[C]ever ...
{c:instrumental verse}
([D]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, [A]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4)
([D]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, [A]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4)
{c:verse 4}
[D] And now, the times are changing
[A] Look at everything that's come and gone
[D] Sometimes when I play that old six string
[A] Think about you wonder what went wrong
{soc}
[Bm] Standing on your [A]mama's porch
[D] You told me it would [G]last forever
[Bm] Oh, when you [A]held my hand
[D] I knew that it was [G]now or never
[Bm] Those were the [A]↓ best days of my [D]life ... oh [A]yeah ...
{eoc}
{c:outro}
Back in the summer of [D]'69 ... [A] ...
It was the summer of [D]'69 ... oh [A]yeah
Me and my baby in [D]'69 ... [A]
It was the summer of [D]'69 ... [A]↓
