Summer Of '69 Chords by Bryan Adams

[Intro]

[Verse]
D                     A        
■ I got my first real sixstring
                             D
Bought it at the fiveanddime ■
                  D           
Played it 'til my fingers bled
A                 D         
Was the summer of 'sixtynine
                             A
Me and some guys from school ■
                  A              
Had a band and we tried real hard
D                     A      
■ Jimmy quit Jody got married
                                     B
I should've known we'd never get far ■


[Chorus]
          A            
Oh when I look back now
D                    G       Bm     
■ That summer seemed to last forever
       A                D
And if I had the choice ■
         G               Bm   
Yeah I'd always wanna be there
               A               D    A
Those were the best days of my life ■


[Verse]
D                 A          
■ Ain't no use in complainin'
                  A7       
When you've got a job to do
D                               A      
■ Spent my evenings down at the drivein
                          B   
And that's when I met you yeah


[Chorus]
                 A           
Standin' on your mama's porch
D                        G           
■ You told me that you'd wait forever
Bm              A           
Oh and when you held my hand
D                    G      Bm   
■ I knew that it was now or never
B              A               D   
Those were the best days of my life
   A   
Oh yeah
                      D          A F   
Back in the summer of 'sixtynine ■ ■ oh


[Bridge]
            Bb          
Man we were killin' time
        C                 
We were young and restless
Bb           F     
We needed to unwind
        Bb                       C              
I guess nothin' can last forever forever no yeah


[Solo]
D A D A A7 D
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[Verse]
                      A7      
And now the times are changin'
A                                       D
Look at everything that's come and gone ■
                      D                 
Sometimes when I play that old sixstring
  A                                        B
I ■ think about you wonder what went wrong ■
                 A           
Standin' on your mama's porch
D                       G           
■ You told me that it'd last forever
Bm B Bm           A           
Oh ■ and when you held my hand
D             G             B    
■ I knew that it was now or never
           A                   D   
Those were the best days of my life


[Chorus]
   A     
Oh ■ yeah
                      D          A 
Back in the summer of 'sixtynine oh
                     D             A    A7
It was the summer of 'sixtynine oh yeah ■ 
                  D          A D   
Me and my baby in 'sixtynine ■ ■ oh
           A                     D                        
It was the summer the summer the summer of 'sixtynine yeah


[Solo]
A D A D A D
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A D A
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[Outro]

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