Summer of 69 (SS) [D]- Bryan Adams Intro: [D] [D] [D] [D] [D] I got my first real four-string [A] Bought it at the Five and Dime [D] Played it till my fingers bled [A] It was the summer of sixty-nine [D] Me and some guys from school [A] Had a band and we tried real hard [D] Jimmy quit... Jodie got married [A] Shoulda known... we’d never get far [Bm] Oh, when I [A]look back now [D] That summer seemed to [G]last forever [Bm] And if I [A]had the choice [D] Yeah I’d always [G]wanna be there [Bm*] Those were the [A*]best days of my [D]life [D] [A] [A] [D] Ain’t no use in complainin’ [A] When you’ve got a job to do [D] Spent my evenin’s down at the drive-in [A] And that’s when I met you, yeah |Chorus: |[Bm] Standin’ on your [A]mama’s porch |[D] You told me that you’d [G]wait forever |[Bm] Oh and when you [A]held my hand |[D] I knew that it was [G]now or never |[Bm*] Those were the [A*]best [A*]days of my |[D]life...oh [A]yeah... back in the summer of [D]69 [D] [A] [A] Refrain: [F] Man we were [Bb]killin’ time We were [C]young and restless... we [Bb]needed to unwind [F] I guess [Bb]nothin’ can last for[C]ever... forever... no Instrumental: [D] (Down, Up, Down, Up, Down,Up) [A] (Down, Up, Down, Up, Down,Up) [D] (Down, Up, Down, Up, Down,Up) [A] (Down, Up, Down, Up, Down,Up) Normal Strum: [D] And now the times are changin’ [A] Look at everything that’s come and gone [D] Sometimes when I play that old four-string [A] I think about ya, wonder what went wrong Chorus: Outro: [D]Oh yeah! [A] It was the summer of [D]69 Oh [A]yeah! Me and my baby and a [D]69 [D] Uh-huh [A] [A] Outro: [D] [D] [A] [A] [D] [D] [A] [A] [D – single strum]