Summer of 69 Chords by Bryan Adams

[Start]

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


[Chorus]
    Bm        A            
But ■  when I look back now
D                       G    Bm     
■ That summer seemed to last forever
       A       A7     D
And if I had a choice ■
                G        Bm   
Yeah I'd always wanna be there
               A7              D    A
Those were the best days of my life ■


[Verse]
D                            
■ Ain't no use in complainin'
A7                         
When you've got a job to do
D                   D7   D      A7     
■ Spent my evenin's down at the drivein
                          Bm  
And that's when I met you yeah


[Chorus]
                 A           
Standin' on your mama's porch
D                        G    Bm     
■ You told me that you'd wait forever
Bm7         A               
Oh and when you held my hand
D                    G      Bm   
■ I knew that it was now or never
Bm7            A               D   
Those were the best days of my life
   A   
Oh yeah
                      D          A
Back in the summer of 'sixtynine ■
F                Bb          
■ Oh Man we were killin' time
        C                 
We were young and restless
Bb           F     
We needed to unwind
        Bb                      
I guess nothing can last forever
C         
Forever no


[Solo]
D A D A D
■ ■ ■ ■ ■


[Verse]
                           A       
Yeah And now the times are changin'
                          A            
Look at everything that's come and gone
D                                       
Sometimes when I play that old sixstring
  A                                Bm   
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          A               
Oh and when you held my hand
D                    G      Bm   
■ I knew that it was now or never
               A               D   
Those were the best days of my life


[Chorus]
   A   
Oh yeah
                      D         
Back in the summer of 'sixtynine
A                            D         
■ Uhhuh It was the summer of 'sixtynine
D      
Oh yeah
A                          D         
■ Just me and my baby in a 'sixtynine
        A
Oh whoo ■
D            A     
■ It was the summer
A                      
Sweet sweet summer time
D          A
Yeah c'mon ■


[Solo]
D A                      D         
■ ■ It was the summer of 'sixtynine


[Outro]
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