Summer of 69 (Maggie)
Bryan Adams
Intro: [D] [D] [D] [D]
Verse 1:
[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 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
[Instrumental]
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[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] sixty-nine [D]
Refrain:
[F] Man we were killin’ [Bb] time we were
[C] young and restless... we [Bb] needed to unwind
[F] I guess [Bb] nothin’ can last for[C]ever... forever... no
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
[D] And now the times are changin’
[A] Look at everything that’s come and gone
[D] Sometimes when I play that old six-string
[A] I think about ya, wonder what went wrong
|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] sixty-nine [D]
Outro:
It was the summer of [D] sixty-nine
Me and my baby and a [D] sixty-nine [D/D/D]