Summer Of 69 - Bryan Adams

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    I got my f

irst real six-

string

    Bought it 

at the five-an

d-dime

    Played it 

'til my finger

s bled

    Was the su

mmer of '69


    Me and som

e guys from sc

hool

    Had a band

 and we tried 

real hard

    Jimmy quit

, Jody got mar

ried

    I shoulda 

known we'd nev

er get far

            
    Oh, when I

 
 look back now
             
    That summe

            
r seemed to la

st forever
           
    And if I h

ad the choice
             
    Yeah, I'd 

       
always wanna b

e there
            
    Those were

     
 the best days

 of my life




    Ain't no u

se in complain

in'

    When you g

ot a job to do

    Spent my e

venin's down a

t the drive in

    And that's

 when I met yo

u

            
    Standin on

    
 a mama's porc

h
             
    You told m

             
e that you'd w

ait forever
            
    Oh, and wh

       
en you held my

 hand
             
    I knew tha

         
t it was now o

r never
            
    Those were

     
 the best days

 of my life

             
     (Oh yeah)

              
           Bac

             
k in the summe

          
r of 69’

             
        Man we

       
 were killin' 

time
              
We were young 

  
and restless
        
We needed to u

nwind
             
         I gue

            
ss nothin' can

            
 last forever,

 forever no

    


   And now the

 times are cha

ngin'

   Look at eve

rything that's

 come and gone

   Somethimes 

when I play th

at old six-str

ing

   I think abo

ut ya, wonder 

what went wron

g

            
    Standin on

    
 a mama's porc

h
             
    You told m

             
e that you'd w

ait forever
            
    Oh, and wh

       
en you held my

 hand
             
    I knew tha

         
t it was now o

r never
            
    Those were

     
 the best days

 of my life

             
     (Oh yeah)

              
           Bac

             
k in the summe

          
r of 69’

D – A            (All the way to the end)

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