Rhythm – DDUU DU
(D)I got my first real six-string
(A)Bought it at the five and dime
(D)Played it ’til my fingers bled
(A)Was the summer of ’69
(D)Me and some guys from school
(A)Had a band and we tried real hard
(D)Jimmy quit and Jody got married
(A)I should’ve known we’d never get far
(Bm)Oh, when I (A)look back now
(D)That summer seemed to (G)last forever
(Bm)And if I (A)had the choice
(D)Yeah, I’d always (G)wanna be there
(Bm)Those were the (A)best days of my (D)life
Intro : D A
(D)Ain’t no use in complainin’
(A)When you got a job to do
(D)I spent my evenings down at the drive-in
(A)And that’s when I met you, yeah!
(Bm)Standin’ on your (A)mama’s porch
(D)You told me that you’d (G)wait forever
(Bm)Oh, and when you (A)held my hand
(D)I knew that it was (G)now or never
(Bm)Those were the (A)best days of my (D)life
(D)
Oh, (A)yeah
Back in the summer of (D)’69, oh
(F)Man, we were (Bb)killin’ time
We were (C)young and restless
We (Bb)needed to un(F)wind
I guess (Bb)nothing can last (C)forever
Forever, no
(D)And now the times are changin’
(A)Look at everything that’s come and gone
(D)Sometimes when I play that old six-string
(A)I think about you, wonder what went wrong
(Bm)Standin’ on your (A)mama’s porch
(D)You told me that it’d (G)last forever
(Bm)Oh, and when you (A)held my hand
(D)I knew that it was (G)now or never
(Bm)Those were the (A)best days of my (D)life
Oh, (A)yeah
Back in the summer of (D)’69, uh-(A)huh
It was the summer of (D)’69, oh, (A)yeah
Me and my baby in (D)’69, oh, (A)oh….(D)
It was the (A)summer, summer, summer of (D)’69