Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams (as played on 'Unplugged')
Transcribed by Jon Nott 

Chords:
       x24432
        
G        32003


3 or 320003
        xx0232
        133211
       x13331
        x32010


* - progression:  -  -  -  -  -  (arpeggiated)
* - progression:  -  -  -  -  -  (arpeggiated)


[Intro]
* * * *


[Verse]
            
  I got my fir

              
st real six st

     
ring - bought 

it at the five

 & dime
            
  Played it ti

              
l my fingers b

    
led - was the 

summer of '69
            
  Me and some 

              
guys from scho

  
ol had a band 

and we tried r

eal hard
            
  Jimmy quit a

              
nd Jody got ma

      
rried - should

a known we'd n

ever get far


[Chorus]
           
  Oh when I lo

             
ok back now - 

              
that summer se

        
emed to last f

or ever
           
  And if I had

             
 the choice - 

              
ya I'd always 


wanna be there
            
  Those were t

             
he best days o

        
f my life


[Verse]
            
  Ain't no use

             
 complaining -

*
 when ya gotta

 job to do
            
  Spent my eve

              
nings down at 

             
the drive in -

*
 and that's wh

en I met you -

 ya


[Chorus]
            
  Standing on 

             
your Mamma's p

             
orch - you tol

              
d me that you'

  
d wait forever
            
  And when you

             
 held my hand 

             
- I knew that 

       
it was now or 

never
            
  Those were t

             
he best days o

          
f my life - ba

              
ck in the summ

         
er of '69


[Interlude]
             
  Man we were 


killin' time
             
  We were youn

              
g and reckless

      
 - we needed t

o unwind
           
  I guess noth

              
ing can last f

  
orever...


[Instrumental]
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[Verse]

  And now the 

times are chan

gin'

  Look at ever

ything that's 

come and gone

  Sometimes wh

en I play my o

ld six string

  I think abou

t you wonder w

hat went wrong


[Chorus]
            
  Standing on 

             
your Mamma's p

             
orch - you tol

          
d me it'd last

 forever
            
  And when you

             
 held my hand 

             
- I knew that 

       
it was now or 

never
            
  Those were t

             
he best days o

           
f my life -   

*             
 back in the s

            
ummer of '69


[Outro]
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