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Summer Of 69 Chords

D: xx0232;
A: x02220;
G: 320003;
F: 133211;
C: 032010;
Bb: x13331;
Bm: x24432;
Transpose up

(INTRO)

D 
 
D 
 
D 
D 
   I got my first real six-string
A 
   Bought it at the five and dime
D 
   Played it ’til my fingers bled
A 
   Was the summer of ’69
 
 
 
(VER)
 
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 should’ve known we’d never get far
 
 
 
(CHO)
 
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)
 
D 
 
A 
 
(VER)
 
D 
   Ain’t no use in complainin’
A 
   When you got a job to do
D 
   I spent my evenings down at the drive-in
A 
   And that’s when I met you, yeah
 
 
 
(CHO)
 
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, yea
A 
h
 
Back in the summer of ‘
D 
69, 
 
o
A 
h
 
 
 
(BRI)
 
F 
   Man, we were  
Bb 
killin’ 
 
time
 
We were  
C 
young and restless
 
We  
Bb 
needed to unwind
F 
   I guess  
Bb 
nothing can last for
C 
ever
 
Forever, no
 
 
Yeah
 
 
 
 
(INSTRUMENTAL)
 
D 
 
A 
 
D 
 
A 
 
(VER)
 
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
 
 
 
(CHO)
 
Bm 
   Standin’ on your  
A 
mama’s 
 
porch
D 
   You told me that it’d  
G 
last 
 
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, ye
A 
ah
 
Back in the summer of ‘
D 
69, 
 
uh-
A 
huh
 
It was the summer of ‘
D 
69, oh, y
A 
eah
 
 
 
(OUTRO)
 
 
Me and my baby in ‘
D 
69, 
 
o
A 
h, 
 
oh
 
It was the  
A 
summer, summer, summer of ‘
D 
69
 
(Ye
A 
ah) 
 
 
D 
 
A 
 
D 
 
A 

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Summer of 69 is the one of the best iconic song sung by Bryan Adams.
Song based on D scale and played with 7 chords.

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