Summer Of 69Ryan AdamsChords

D I got my first real six-strinAg, bought it at the five-and-dime

D Played 'til my fingers bleAd, it was summer of '69

D Me and some guys from schooAl, had a Band and we tried real hard

D Jimmy quit and Jody got marrieAd, I shoulda known we'd never get far

Bm Oh when I look baAck now, thaDt summer seemed to last foreveGr

Bm And if I had theA choice, yeaDh I'd always wanna beG there

Bm Those were the best daAys of my life D/A D

A/D D Ain't no use in complainin', D/A whenA you got a job to do

A/D D Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in, D/Aand Athat's when I met you

Bm Standin on a mama's Aporch, you told meD that you'd wait forevGer

Bm Oh and when you held myA hand, I Dknew that it was nowG or never

Bm Those were the best daAys of my life D

D (Oh yeah) Back in the summer of 6A9’ D/A D

F Man we were kB♭illin' time, We wereC young and restless

B♭/DWe needed C/Eto unwiFnd

 I guess nB♭othin' can last foCrever, forever no

A/D - D D/A – A

And now the times are changin', look at everything that's come and gone

A/D - D D/A – A

Somethimes when I play that old 6-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong

Bm Standin on your mama's Aporch, youD told me that it’d lasGt forever

Bm Oh and when you held myA hand, I kDnew that it was noGw or never

Bm Those were the best daAys of my life D

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(Oh yeah) It was the summer of 69’

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