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

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

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’ -
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|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       |