Transpose up
(INTRO)
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I got my first real six-string
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Bought it at the five and dime
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Played it ’til my fingers bled
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Was the summer of ’69
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Me and some guys from school
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Had a band and we tried real hard
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Jimmy quit and Jody got married
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I should’ve known we’d never get far
(CHO)
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Oh, when I
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look back now
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That summer seemed to
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last
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And if I
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had the choice
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Yeah, I’d always
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wanna be there
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Those were the
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best days of my
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life
(INSTRUMENTAL)
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(VER)
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Ain’t no use in complainin’
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When you got a job to do
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I spent my evenings down at the drive-in
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And that’s when I met you, yeah
(CHO)
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Standin’ on your
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mama’s
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You told me that you’d
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wait
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Oh, and when you
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held my hand
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I knew that it was
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now or never
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best days of my
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life
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Oh, yea
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h
Back in the summer of ‘
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69,
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h
(BRI)
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Man, we were
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killin’
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We were
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young and restless
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needed to unwind
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I guess
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nothing can last for
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ever
Forever, no
Yeah
(INSTRUMENTAL)
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(VER)
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And now the times are changin’
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Look at everything that’s come and gone
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Sometimes when I play that old six-string
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I think about you, wonder what went wrong
(CHO)
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Standin’ on your
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mama’s
porch
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You told me that it’d
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last
forever
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Oh, and when you
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held my hand
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I knew that it was
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now or never
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Am
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Those were the
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best days of my
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life
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Oh, ye
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ah
Back in the summer of ‘
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69,
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huh
It was the summer of ‘
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69, oh, y
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eah
(OUTRO)
Me and my baby in ‘
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69,
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h,
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summer, summer, summer of ‘
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69
(Ye
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ah)
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