Summer Of '69

Bryan Adams

• D5
  P1:
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• D5A5D5A5
  S1:
  x-x-x- I got my first real six-string 

  x-x- Bought it at the five-and-dime 

  x-x- Played until my fingers bled 

  It was summer of '69
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  S2:
  x-x- Me and some guys from school 

  Had a band and we tried real hard 

  Jimmy quit and Jody got married 

  I should have known we'd never get far
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  R1:
  x-x-x- Oh, when I look back now 

  That summer seemed to last forever 

  x-x- And if I had the choice 

  x-x- Yeah, I'd always wanna be there 

  x-x- Those were the best days of my life
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  M1:
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  S3:
  x----x----x- Ain't no use in complainin' 

  x----x- When you got a job to do 

  Spent my evenin's down at the drive in 

  x----x----x- And that's when I met you
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  R2:
  x-x- Standin on your mama's porch 

  You told me that you'd wait forever 

  x-x- Oh, and when you held my hand 

  I knew that it was now or never 

  x-x- Those were the best days of my life
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  M2:
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  Oh-oh, yeah -x------x------x x- back in the summer of '6-----9 

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  Oh-----oh -----x------x x------x------x------x
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  B1:
  x-x- Man we were killin' time 

  We were young and restless, we needed to unwind 

  x-x-x- I guess nothin' can last forever 

  Forever, no
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  S4:
  x-x- And now the times are chan---gin' 

  Look at everything that's come and go-----ne 

  Sometimes when I play that old six----string 

  I think about you wonder what went wro----ong
• HmiADGHmiADGHmiADsus2
  R3:
  x-x- Standin' on your mama's porch 

  You told me it would last forever 

  x-x- Oh, the way you held my hand 

  I knew that it was now or never 

  x-x- Those were the best days of my life
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  D1:
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  Oh-oh, yeah -x------x------x x- back in the summer of '6-----9 

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  Oh-----oh -----x------x x- It was the summer of 6-----9 

  ------x------x x------x- Oh-----oh Yeah 

  ------x------x------x Me and my babe in 6-----9 

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  Oh---------------------------- 

  x------x------x------x x------x------x- It was the summer 

  ------x------x------x Summer, summer of 6-----9
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