Summer Of 69

summer of sixty nine ryan adams D A D A i got my first real six - string , bought it at the five - and - dime D A played ’til my fingers bled , it was summer of ’69 D A me and some guys from school , had a band and we tried real hard D A jimmy quit and jody got married , i shoulda known we’d never get far Bm A D G oh when i look back now , that summer seemed to last forever Bm A D G and if i had the choice , yeah i’d always wanna be there Bm A D/A D those were the best days of my life A/D - D D/A - A ain’t no use in complainin’ , when you got a job to do A/D - D D/A A spent my evenin’s down at the drive - in , and that’s when i met you Bm A D G standin on a mama’s porch , you told me that you’d wait forever Bm A D G oh and when you held my hand , i knew that it was now or never Bm A D those were the best days of my life D A D/A D ( oh yeah ) back in the summer of 69 F A# C man we were killin’ time , we were young and restless A#/D C/E F we needed to unwind A# C i guess nothin’ can last forever , forever no D G/D - D | A D/A - A ( 2x ) A/D - D D/A A and now the times are changin’ , look at everything that’s come and gone A/D - D D/A A somethimes when i play that old 6 - string , i think about you , wonder what went wrong Bm A D G standin on your mama’s porch , you told me that itd last forever Bm A D G oh and when you held my hand , i knew that it was now or never Bm A D those were the best days of my life D A D A ( oh yeah ) it was the summer of 69 ( repeat all the way to the end )