Summer Of '69 Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[A][A]
[A]I got my first real six-string
[E]Bought it at the five-and-dime
[A]Played it 'til my fingers bled
[E]Was the summer of '69

[Verse 2]
[A]Me and some guys from school
[E]Had a band and we tried real hard
[A]Jimmy quit, Jody got married
[E]I should've known we'd never get far

[Pre-chorus 1]
[F#m]Oh, when I look b[E]ack now
[A]The summer seemed to las[D]t forever
[F#m]And if I had th[E]e choice
[A]Yeah, I'd always wan[D]na be there
[F#m]Those were the best d[E]ays of my

[Interlude 1]
[A](life) [A](He[E]y)[E]

[Verse 3]
[A]Ain't no use in complainin'
[E]When you've got a job to do
[A]Spent my evenings down at the drive-in
[E]And that's when I met you, yeah

[Pre-chorus 2]
[F#m]Standin' on your mama's[E] porch
[A]You told me that you'd wai[D]t forever
[F#m]Oh, and when you held m[E]y hand
[A]I knew that it was now[D] or never
[F#m]Those were the best d[E]ays of my

[Chorus 1]
[A](life) Oh, [E]yeah
Back in the summer of [A]'6 9, [E]oh

[Bridge 1]
[C]Man we were kil[F]lin' time
We were [G]young and restless
We [F]needed to unwind
[C]I guess not[F]hin' can last foreve[G]r,

[Interlude 2]
forever, no
[A]Yea[A]h[E][E]
[A][A][E][E]

[Verse 4]
[A]And now the times are changin'
[E]Look at everything that's come and gone
[A]Sometimes when I play that old six-string
[E]Think about you, wonder what went wrong

[Pre-chorus 3]
[F#m]Standin' on your mama's[E] porch
[A]You told me that it'd las[D]t forever
[F#m]Oh, and when you held m[E]y hand
[A]I knew that it was now[D] or never
[F#m]Those were the best d[E]ays of my

[Chorus 2]
[A](life) Oh, [E]yeah
Back in the summer of [A]'6 9, oh
[E]It was the summer of...
[Repeat and fade]