Summer Of ’69 By Bryan Adams – Summer Of ’69 Chords
Intro
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Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Verse
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I got my first real six-string
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Bought it at the five-and-dime
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Played it ’til my fingers bled
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It was the summer of ’69
Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Verse 2
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Me and some guys from school
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Had a band and we tried real hard
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Jimmy quit, Joey got married
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I shoulda known we’d never get far
Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Chorus
Bm A
Oh, when I look back now
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That summer seemed to last forever
Bm A
And if I had the choice
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Yeah, I’d always wanna be there
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Those were the best days of my life
Instrumental
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Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Verse 3
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Ain’t no use in complainin’
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When you got a job to do
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Spent my evenin’s down at the drive in
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And that’s when I met you
Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Chorus
Bm A
Standin’ on your mama’s porch
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You told me that you’d wait forever
Bm A
Oh, and when you held my hand
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I knew that it was now or never
Bm A D
Those were the best days of my life
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——Oh yeah Back in the summer of ’69 Ohhh
Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Bridge
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Man, we were killin’ time
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We were young and restless
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We needed to unwind
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I guess nothin’ can last forever, forever no
Instrumental
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Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Verse 4
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And now the times are changin’
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Look at everything that’s come and gone
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Sometimes when I play that old six-string
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I think about you, wonder what went wrong
Summer Of 69 Chords/Lyrics/Chorus
Bm A
Standin’ on your mama’s porch
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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
Outro
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——-Oh yeah Back in the summer of ’69 Uh-huh
Bryan Adams
Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist, and activist. He rose to fame in Canada and the United States with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife and turned into a global star with his 1984 album Reckless, which produced some of his best known songs, including “Run to You”, “Summer of ’69”, and his first number one, “Heaven”.
In 1991, he released the album Waking Up the Neighbours, which included the song “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”. The song became a worldwide hit and reached number 1 in many countries, including a new record of 16 consecutive weeks in the United Kingdom. Adams also had the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit singles “Please Forgive Me”, “All for Love” and “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?”
For his contributions to music, Adams has garnered many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations and 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, American Music awards, three Ivor Novello Awards for song composition, and has been nominated five times for Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films. Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.
Adams was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2011 and Canada’s Walk of Fame, Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada’s Juno Awards. In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of all-time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on 1 May 2010 was given the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.
Adams released his Ultimate collection in 2017; it included two new songs, “Please Stay” and “Ultimate Love”. He co-wrote his first Broadway musical Pretty Woman: The Musical in 2018. Adams released his 14th album, Shine a Light, on 1 March 2019.
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