Intro: |
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D A |
I got my first real six-string |
A D |
Bought it at the five-and-dime |
D A |
Played it till my fingers bled |
A D |
Was the summer of '69 |
D A |
Me and some guys from school |
A D |
Had a band and we tried real hard |
D A |
Jimmy quit, Jody got married |
A Bm |
Shoulda known, we'd never get far |
Bm A D |
Oh when I look back now |
D G Bm |
That summer seemed to last forever |
Bm A D |
And if I had the choice |
D G A Bm |
Yeah, I'd always want to be there |
Bm A D |
Those were the best days of my life |
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A Dadd9 D |
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D Aadd9 |
Ain't no use in complainin' |
A Dadd9 |
When you got a job to do |
D |
Spent my evenings down |
Aadd9 A |
at the drive-in |
A Bm |
And that's when I met you yeah! |
Bm A D |
Standin' on your mama's porch |
D |
You told me that |
G Bm |
you'd wait forever |
Bm A D |
Oh and when you held my hand |
D G Bm |
I knew that it was now or never |
A D |
Those were the best days of my life |
A |
Oh yeah |
D A F |
back in the summer of '69 ohhh |
F Bb |
Man we were killin' time |
C |
We were young and restless |
Dm Bb F |
We needed to unwind |
Bb C |
I guess nothin' can last forever, |
C D |
Forever, no |
Bridge: x2 |
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A |
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D A |
And now the times are changin' |
A |
Look at everything that's |
D |
come and gone |
D |
Sometimes when I play |
A |
that old six-string |
A |
Think about you wonder |
Bm |
what went wrong |
Bridge: |
A D D D x2 |
Bm A D |
Standin' on your mama's porch |
D G Bm |
You told me that it last forever |
A D |
Oh and when you held my hand |
D G Bm |
I knew that it was now or never |
A D |
Those were the best days of my life |
A D |
Oh yeah back in the summer of '69 |
A D |
Un-huh it was the summer of '69 |
A |
oh yeah |
D A D |
Me and my baby in '69, ohhhhhh |
A |
It was the summer, the summer, |
D |
The summer of '69 |
Bridge: |
A D D D x2 |
Ending: |
D D A D x2 |