Summer Of 69 Chords & Tabs

by Bryan Adams

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Intro / Verse:
BPM: 138
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2]
Chorus:
BPM: 138
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 202, 101, 1, 101]
[Riffs]    P.M. = palm muting
D (5)
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-3-----3---------|-----------------|
G|-2-----2---------|-----------------|
D|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E                               
P.M.  P.M.---------------------|
A (5)
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B                                     
G|-2-----2---------|-----------------|
D|-2-----2---------|-----------------|
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
E                               
P.M.  P.M.---------------------|

[Intro]
D

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

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

[Chorus 1]
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               D   
Those were the best days of my life

[Instrumental]
(D)   A

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

[Chorus 2]
Bm               A           
Standin' on your mama's porch
D                      G           
You told me that you'd wait forever
Bm               A           
Oh, and when you held my hand
D                  G           
I knew that it was now or never
Bm             A               D   
Those were the best days of my life
D     A                               D       A  
Oh yeah        Back in the summer of '69     Ohhh

[Bridge]
F            Bb          
Man, we were killin' time
        C                 
We were young and restless
   Bb/D            
We needed to unwind
F       Bb                  C               
I guess nothin' can last forever, forever no

[Instrumental]
D    A    x2

[Verse 4]
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

[Chorus 3]
Bm               A           
Standin' on your mama's porch
D                     G           
You told me that it'd last forever
Bm               A           
Oh, and when you held my hand
D                  G           
I knew that it was now or never
Bm             A               D   
Those were the best days of my life

[Outro]
D     A                               D         A  
Oh yeah        Back in the summer of '69     Uh-huh
                      D         A   
It was the summer of '69.    Oh yeah
                   D          A        
Me and my baby in '69.       Ohhhhh, oh
D          A                          D 
It was the summer, summer, summer of '69
  A D
Yeah
(Fade out)