Summer Of '69 Chords by Bryan Adams

[Intro]
D   A                            
■ I ■ got my first real sixstring


[Verse]
D                A            
Bought it at the ■ fiveanddime
A                             
Played it 'til my fingers bled
    A                       
Was the summer of 'sixtynine
       D                      
Me and ■ some guys from school
               D                 
Had a band and we tried real hard
                    A      
Jimmy quit Jody got married
                                     Bm
I should've known we'd never get far ■ 
          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
Bm7            A               D   
Those were the best days of my life
      A D           A          
Ain't ■ ■ no use in complaining
                  A        
When you've got a job to do
D                               A7      A
■ Spent my evenings down at the drivein ■
                          Bm  
And that's when I met you yeah


[Chorus]
                 A           
Standing on your mama's porch
D                  G                 
■ You told me that you'd wait forever
Bm7             A           
Oh and when you held my hand
       D                         
I knew ■ that it was now or never
G                   Bm            A   
Those were the best ■  days of my life
        D
Oh yeah ■
A                       D          A7 F   
■ Back in the summer of 'sixtynine ■  ■ oh


[Bridge]
            Bb          
Man we were killing time
        C                 
We were young and restless
Dm7          F     
We needed to unwind
        Bb                      
I guess nothing can last forever
C         
Forever no


[Inst]
D A D A
■ ■ ■ ■


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


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


[Solo]
D           A         
■ Oh It was the summer
    A     
The summer
A7            D         
The summer of 'sixtynine
A A7 D A D A
■ ■  ■ ■ ■ ■
D A D A
■ ■ ■ ■


[Outro]
A   
Yeah