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Summer Of 69

Intro: D

     D
1. I got my first real six string
   A2
   Boy hit I the fife and done
   D
   Played until my fingers bled.
   A2
   Was the summer of 69.
   D
   We had some guys from school.
   A2
   Had a band and we tried real hard.
   D
   Jimmy quit, Jody got married.
   A2
   Should have known we never get far.

    Hmi      A
R. Oh had a look like now
   D                      G
   This summer seemed to last forever.
   Hmi         A
   And if I had the choice,
   D             G
   Yeah I would wanna be there.
   Hmi              A               D
   Those where the best days of my life.

2. Are you listening, complaining.
   When you got a talk to do.
   Spend my evenings down at the Tavern.
   And that‹s when I met you, yeah.

R. Standing on your mamas porch.
   You told me that you wait forever.
   Oh, and when you held my hand.
   I knew that it was now or never.
   Those where the best days of my life.     
   Oh yeah. Back in the summer of 69.
   Oh.

Bridge.
    F            B
   When we where killing time
            C
   We where young and restless.
   B
   But neither was to wild.
     F            B           C
   I guess nothing can last forever.

   Forever no. Yeah.

3. And now the times are changing.
   Look at everything That‹s come and gone.
   Sometimes I‹m out  Play that old six string.
   Figured that you only once went wrong.
   Standing on your mamas porch
   It‹s only that it lasts forever.

R. Oh, and when you held my hand.
   I knew that it was now or never.
   Those where the best days of my life.     
   Oh yeah. Back in the summer of 69. Oh.
   It was the summer of 69. Oh yeah.
   Me and my baby 69.
   Oh. It was the summer
   The summer, the summer of 69.