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Summer Of  69  Chords by Bryan Adams

Summer Of 69 chords by Bryan Adams (Ver. 2)

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard tuning

Difficulty: novice

Summer Of ’69 - Bryan Adams (Bryan Adams/Jim Vallance, 1984)
Chorded By: Zack Oxford.

4/4 TIME @ 136 BPM (3 Min. 32 Sec. or 3 Min. 36 Sec.) in ’D’ & ’F’.

Chords Used:
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       GUITAR      KEYBOARDS
     E A D G B e   Bass| Chord
    ------------------  -------------
D   - x x 0 2 3 2   D  A-D-F#
A   - x 0 2 2 2 0   A  A-C#-E
Bm  - x 2 4 4 3 2   B  B-D-F#
G   - 3 2 0 0 3 3   G  B-D-G
Ds2  - x x 0 2 3 0   D  A-D-E
Ds4  - x x 0 2 3 3   D  A-D-G
As2  - x 0 2 2 0 0   A  A-B-E
As4  - x 0 2 2 3 0   A  A-D-E
F   - 1 3 3 2 1 1   F  A-C-F
Bb  - x 1 3 3 3 1   Bb  Bb-D-F
C   - x 3 2 0 1 0   C  G-C-E
Bb/D - x x 0 3 3 1   D  Bb-D-F
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INTRO: [10 M] ** KEY = ’D’ -
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|D    |D    |D      |D             |
            I got my first real six- string,

|A          |A          |D          |
  bought it at the five and dime,    played it ’til my

|D         Ds2 |A          |A         |
 fin- gers bled,    was the sum-mer of six- ty nine

VERSE #1: [22 M]
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|D        |D           |A          |
   Me and some guys from school    had a band and we

|A          |D          |D           |
 tried real hard    Jim-my quit,  and Jo-dy got mar- ried

|A            |A         |Bm       |
 I should-a known  we’d nev-er get far     Oh, when I

|A          |D             |G          |
 look back now,    that sum- mer seemed to last for- ev- er,

|Bm      |A          |D          |G          |
  and if I had the choice,     yeah, I’d al-ways wan- na be there

|Bm         |A         |Ds2  D Ds4 | D Ds2 D |
  Those were the best days of my life

|As2 A As4 | A As2 A |

VERSE #2: [22 M]
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|D        |D           |A         |A       |
  Ain’t no use in com-plain- in’    when you got a job to do

|D             |D          |A          |
  Spent my eve-nin’s down at the drive- in,   and that’s when

|A       |Bm         |A         |
 I met you    Stand-in’ on your ma-ma’s porch,

|D            |G          |Bm         |
  you told me that you’d wait for- ev- er   Oh, and when you

|A         |D          |G         |
 held my hand,    I knew that it was now or nev- er

|Bm         |A         |Ds2  D Ds4 | D Ds2 D  |
  Those were the best days of my life        Oh, yeah

|As2 A As4 |   A   As2   A |
        Back in the sum-mer of

CHORUS #1: [4 M]
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|Ds2   D   Ds4 | D Ds2 D |As2 A As4 | A As2 A |
 six- ty nine         Oh

BRIDGE: [8 M] ** KEY = ’F’ -
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|F        |Bb            |C             |
  Man, we were kil-lin’ time, we were young and rest- less, we

|Bb/D         |F      |Bb             |
 need-ed to un-wind    I guess noth-in’ can last for- ev-

|C         |C      |
 -er,   for- ev- er,  no

INTERLUDE: [8 M] ** KEY = ’D’ -
---------

|Ds2 D Ds4 | D Ds2 D  |As2 A As4 | A As2 A |Ds2 D Ds4 | D Ds2 D |
           Yeah

|As2 A As4 | A As2 A |

VERSE #3: [22 M]
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|Ds2 D    Ds4 |    D  Ds2   D  |As2  A     As4     |
   And now the times are chang- in’  look at ev-’ry-thing that’s

|   A  As2 A |Ds2 D      Ds4  |     D  Ds2  D   |
 come and gone     Some-times when I play that old six- string

|As2   A      As4  |   A   As2  A |Bm         |
 I think a-bout you, won-der what went wrong    Stand-in’ on your

|A         |D            |G          |
 ma-ma’s porch,    you told me that it’d last for- ev- er

|Bm         |A         |D          |
  Oh, and when you held my hand,    I knew that it was

|G         |Bm         |A         |Ds2  D Ds4 |
 now or nev- er   Those were the best days of my life

| D Ds2 D  |As2 A As4 |   A   As2   A |
   Oh, yeah        Back in the sum-mer of

CHORUS #2: [24 or 26 M] ’CODA’ (Since the Orig. fades out, you can end it on
---------            the last ’A’, or come back around to the ’D’.)

|Ds2   D   Ds4 | D Ds2 D  |As2 A As4 |  A    As2   A |
 six- ty nine      Uh, huh        It was the sum-mer of

|Ds2   D   Ds4 | D Ds2 D  |As2 A As4 |    A  As2  A |
 six- ty nine      Oh, yeah       Me and my ba- by in

|Ds2   D   Ds4 | D Ds2 D |As2 A As4 | A As2 A |
 six- ty nine         Oh          Oh

|Ds2 D Ds4 | D Ds2 D   |As2   A As4 |    A   As2   A |
          It was the sum-mer,     sum-mer, the sum-mer of

|Ds2   D   Ds4 | D Ds2 D |As2  A As4 | A As4 A |
 six- ty nine          Hey

|Ds2 D Ds4 | D Ds2 D |A    |A    |D    |D    |

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About Summer Of 69

"Summer of ´69" is a song from Canadian rocker Bryan Adam´s 4th album, "Reckless". "Summer of ´69" was released in 1985.

Bryan Adams wrote "Summer of ´69" together with his writing partner Jim Vallance.

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