Summer of '69

Intro: 0:00
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Verse 1: 0:04
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  I got my first real six-string,
A
  Bought it at the five and dime,
D
  Played it 'til my fingers bled,
A
  It was the summer of sixty nine.

Verse 2: 0:18
D
  Me and some guys from school
A
  Had a band and we tried real hard.
D
  Jimmy quit, Joey got married,
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  I shoulda known we'd never get far.

Chorus 1: 0:31
Bm            A
  Oh, when I look back now,
D                        G
  That summer seemed to last forever,
Bm           A
  And if I had the choice,
D                   G
  Yeah, I'd always wanna be there.
0:45
Bm                A!
  Those were the best days
       D ->
Of my life.

Instrumental: 0:49 0:49
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Verse 3: 0:56
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, yeah!

Chorus 2: 1:09
Bm                  A
  Standin' on your mama's porch
D                         G
  You told me that you'd wait forever,
Bm                  A
  Oh, and when you held my hand
D                     G
  I knew that it was now or never.
1:23
Bm                A!
  Those were the best days
       D
Of my life.
    A
Oh yeah, back in the summer of
 D          A
Sixty nine. Oh!

Bridge: 1:40
F               A#
  Man, we were killin' time,
         C
We were young and restless,
   A#
We needed to unwind.
1:47
F          A#
  I guess nothin' can last
   C
Forever, forever, no.

Instrumental: 1:54
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Verse 4: 2:08
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 you, wonder what went wrong.

Chorus 3: 2:22
Bm                  A
  Standin' on your mama's porch
D                      G
  You told me that it last forever,
Bm                  A
  Oh, and when you held my hand
D                     G
  I knew that it was now or never.
2:36
Bm                A!
  Those were the best days
       D
Of my life.
    A
Oh yeah, back in the summer of
 D              A
Sixty nine. Uh huh.

Coda: 2:53
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