Bryan Adams, Summer of '69 (1985)
Key: :[D#] (w: Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance)
INTRO: [D#] [A#] //
[D#] [A#]
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#] 'was the summer of '69
VERSE 2:
[D#] Me and some guys from school,
[A#] had a band and we tried real hard
[D#] Jimmy quit and Jody got married,
[A#] shoulda known we'd never get far
CHORUS 1:
[Cm] But when I
[A#] look back now,
[D#] the summer seemed to
[G#] last forever
[Cm] And if I
[A#] had the choice,
[D#] yeah I'd always
[G#] wanna be there
[Cm] Those were the
[A#] best days of my
[D#] life
[A#] [D#] [A#]
VERSE 3:
[D#] Ain't no use in complainin',
[A#] when you got a job to do
[D#] Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in,
[D#] and that's when I met you, yeah
CHORUS 2:
[Cm] Standin' on your
[A#] mama's porch,
[D#] you told me that you'd
[G#] wait forever
[Cm] And when you
[A#] held my hand,
[D#] I knew that it was
[G#] now or never
[Cm] Those were the
[A#] best days of my
[D#] life
[A#]
Back in the summer of
[D#] '69
[A#]
BRIDGE:
[F#] Man we were
[B] killin' time
We were
[C#] young and restless, we
[B] needed to unwind
[F#] I guess
[B] nothin' can last
[C#] forever,
[C#] forever
VERSE 4:
[D#] And now the times are changin',
[A#] look at everything that's come and gone
[D#] Sometimes when I play my old six-string,
[A#] I think about ya wonder what went wrong
CHORUS 3:
[Cm] Standin' on your
[A#] mama's porch,
[D#] you told me that you'd
[G#] wait forever
[Cm] And when you
[A#] held my hand,
[D#] I knew that it was
[G#] now or never
[Cm] Those were the
[A#] best days of my
[D#] life
[A#]
Back in the summer of
[D#] '69
[A#]
OUTRO:
It was the summer of
[D#] '69
[A#]
Just me and my baby in
[D#] '69
[A#]
Yeah, it was the summer of, summer of
[D#] '69
[A#]
It was the summer of
[D#] love
[A#] 