Key: D Introduction: D
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I got my first real six-stringA
Bought it at the five-and-dimeD
Played it 'til my fingers bledA
It was the summer of '69D
Me and some guys from schoolA
Had a band and we tried real hardD
Jimmy quit, Jody got marriedA
I shoulda known we'd never get farBm
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Oh, when I look back nowD
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That summer seemed to last foreverBm
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And if I had the choiceD
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Yeah, I'd always wanna be thereBm
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Those were the best days of my life (D
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Ain't no use in complainin'A
When you got a job to doD
Spent my evenin's down at the drive inA
And that's when I met you, yeahBm
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Standin' on your mama's porchD
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You told me that you'd wait foreverBm
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Oh, and when you held my handD
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I knew that it was now or neverBm
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Those were the best days of my life (D
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Oh yeah Back in the summer of '69 OhhhF
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Man, we were killin' time C
We were young and restless Bb/D
We needed to unwindF
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I guess nothin' can last forever, forever noD
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And now the times are changin'A
Look at everything that's come and goneD
Sometimes when I play that old six-stringA
I think about you, wonder what went wrongBm
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Standin' on your mama's porchD
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You told me that it'd last foreverBm
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Oh, and when you held my handD
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I knew that it was now or neverBm
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Those were the best days of my life (D
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Oh yeah Back in the summer of '69 Uh-huh D
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It was the summer of '69. Oh yeah D
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Me and my baby in '69. Ohhhhh, ohD
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It was the summer, summer, summer of '69 A
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Yeah (Fade out)