Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams/Jim Vallance

Intro Verse:
  I got my first real six-string
  Bought it at the five-and-dime
  Played it till my fingers bled
  It was the summer of '69

Verse 1:
  Me and some guys from school
  Had a band and we tried real hard
  Jimmy quit and Jody got married
  I shoulda known we'd never get far

Bridge:
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
Bm               A  (N.C.)
  Those were the best days of my life.

Verse 2:
 Ain't no use in complainin'
 When you got a job to do
 Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
 And that's when I met you

Bridge 2:(same as Bridge 1)
  Standin' on your mama's porch
  You told me that you'd wait forever
  Oh and when you held my hand
  I knew that it was now or never
  Those were the best days of my life
 
Chorus line:(play chords like the verse)  
D                      A
Back in the summer of '69

Middle 8:
F           Bb 
Man we were killin' time
        C          
We were young and restless
   Bb 
We needed to unwind
F         Bb                  C         
  I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no

Break: 

Dsus2   D   Dsus4     D   Dsus2  D   Asus2  A    Asus4     A   Asus2  A
|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0----2---|-----------------|------------------| 
|---3-----3-----3-|-----3------------|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0----2---|
|-----2-----2-----|-2-----2---2----2-|---2-----2-----2-|-----2------------|
|-----------------|------------------|-----------2-----|-2-----2----2-----|
|-----------------|------------------|-----2-----------|------------------|

Verse 3: 
  And now the times are changin'
  Look at everything that's come and gone
  Sometimes when I play that old six-string
  I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Bridge 3:(same as the others)
  Standin' on your mama's porch
  You told me it would last forever
  Oh the way you held my hand
  I knew that it was now or never
  Those were the best days of my life