Summer of 69 Chords
By Javed Ali
Key D
#english
Key
D
Capo:
1.0x
Artist: Bryan Adams
Intro
D
D
1st verse :
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 '69
D
Me and some guys from school
A
Had a band and we tried real hard
D
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
A
I shoulda known we'd never get far
Chorus
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
Ya I'd always
G
wanna
be there
Bm
Those were the
A
best
days of my life
D
2nd verse :
D
Ain't no use in complainin'
A
When you got a job to do
D
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
A
And that's when I met you
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 life
D
A
Back in the summer of
D
'69
Bridge
F
Man we were
Bm
killin' time
We were
C
young
and restless
We
Bm
needed to unwind
F
I guess
Bm
nothin'
can last fore
C
ver
- forever, no
3rd verse :
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong
Chorus
Standin' on your Mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of '69