Summer of '69  -  Brain Adams


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       D
         I got my first real 6-string  
       A  
         Bought it at the five and dime  
       D  
         Played it till my fingers bleed  
       A  
         Was the summer of '69  

       D  
         Me and some guys from school  
       A  
         Had a band and we tried real hard  
       D  
         Jimmy quit and Jody got married  
       A  
         Should have known we never get far  


       Bm            A              
         Ohh, when I look back now  
       D                       G  
         That summer seemed to last forever  
       Bm         A  
         And if I had a choice  
       D                  G  
         Yeah, I'd always wanna be there  
       Bm                A (pause and sustain)             
         Those where the best days of my... 

	 D       A
	 Life  


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         Ain't no use in complaining  
       A
         When you got a job to do  
       D
         Spent my evenings down at the drive-in  
       A
         And that's where I met you  


       Bm                 A  
         Standing on your mamma's porch  
       D                        G  
         You told me that you'd wait forever  
       Bm              A
         Ohh, 'n' when you held my hand  
       D                    G
         I knew that it was now or never  
       Bm                A (pause and sustain)            
         Those where the best days of my...

	 D           A 
 	 Life.   Oh, yeah
       (A)                    D       A  
       Back in the summer of '69....  Ohhh  





Bridge:   (Summer of '69)

       F             Bb  
         Man we were killing time we were  
       C                        Bb  
         Young and restless, we needed to unwind  
       F         Bb                  C       (/C 8va)
         I guess nothing can last forever, fovever,   no...  



Instrumental Break:

       D   A   D   A    
	    Yeah


       D
         And now the times are changing  
       A
         Look at everything that's come and gone  
       D
         Sometimes when I play that old 6-string  
       A
         Think about you, wondering what went wrong  


       Bm                 A  
         Standing on your mamma's porch  
       D                       G  
         You told me that it'd last forever  
       Bm                  A
         Ohh, 'n' when you held my hand  
       D                    G
         I knew that it was now or never  
       Bm                A (pause and sustain)            
         Those where the best days of my...

	 D           A 
 	 Life.   Oh, yeah
       (A)                    D         A  
       Back in the summer of '69...  Uh-huh  
	 (A)                   D          A
	 It was the summer of '69...  Oh, yeah
	 (A)                D        A
	 Me and my baby in '69...  Ohhhhhh...
	    D             A                                     D
	 Woo!  It was the summer...  the summer, the summer in '69
	  A
	 Yeah, woo!

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