Summer of 69 (Maggie) Bryan Adams Intro: [D] [D] [D] [D] 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] 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 [Instrumental] [D] [D] [D] [D] [A] [A] [A] [A] [Pre-chorus] [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 days of my [D] life... [D] |Oh [A] yeah... back in the summer of [D] sixty-nine [D] Refrain: [F] Man we were killin’ [Bb] 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] [D] [D] [D] [A] [A] [A] [A] [D] [D] [D] [D] [A] [A] [A] [A] [Verse 2] [D] And now the times are changin’ [A] Look at everything that’s come and gone [D] Sometimes when I play that old six-string [A] I think about ya, wonder what went wrong |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 days of my [D] life... [D] |Oh [A] yeah... back in the summer of [D] sixty-nine [D] Outro: It was the summer of [D] sixty-nine Me and my baby and a [D] sixty-nine [D/D/D]