Summer of 69 Bryan Adams Intro: [D] [D] [D] [D] Verse 1: [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] 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] 69 [D] 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 Single Strum + Kazoo: [D] [A] [D] [A] 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] Kazoo Outro: [D] [D] [A] [A] [D] [D] [A] [A] [D – single strum]