Summer Of Sixty Nine - Bryan Adams D A

^D I got my first real six-strin^Ag, bought it at the five-and-dime ^D Played 'til my fingers ble^Ad, it was summer of '69

^D Me and some guys from schoo^Al, had a Band and we tried real hard ^D Jimmy quit and Jody got marrie^Ad, I shoulda known we'd never get far

^Bm Oh when I look ba^Ack now, tha^Dt summer seemed to last foreve^Gr ^Bm And if I had the^A choice, yea^Dh I'd always wanna be^G there ^Bm Those were the best da^Ays of my life ^D/A ^D

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^D Ain't no use in complainin', ^D/A wh

en^A you got a job to do ^A/D

^D Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in, ^D/Aand ^Athat's when I met you

^Bm Standin on a mama's ^Aporch, you told me^D that you'd wait forev^Ger ^Bm Oh and when you held my^A hand, I ^Dknew that it was now^G or never ^Bm Those were the best da^Ays of my life ^D ^D (Oh yeah) Back in the summer of 6^A9? ^D/A ^D

^F Man we were k^Bbillin' time, We were^C young and restless ^Bb/DWe needed ^C/Eto unwi^Fnd I guess n^Bbothin' can last fo^Crever, forever no

D G/D-D | A D/A-A (2x) A/D - D D/A ? A And now the times are changin', look at everything that's come and gone A/D - D D/A ? A Somethimes when I play that old 6-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong

^Bm Standin on your mama's ^Aporch, you^D told me that it?d las^Gt forever ^Bm Oh and when you held my^A hand, I k^Dnew that it was no^Gw or never ^Bm Those were the best da^Ays of my life ^D

D A D ? A (Oh yeah) It was the summer of 69? (repeat all the way to the end)

Ryan Adams - Summer of 69