Summer of 69

{"acf_content":"[Verse 1]\r\nD\r\n   I got my first real six-string\r\nA\r\n   Bought it at the five-and-dime\r\nD\r\n   Played it 'til my fingers bled\r\nA\r\n   It was the summer of '69\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nD\r\n   Me and some guys from school\r\nA\r\n   Had a band and we tried real hard\r\nD\r\n   Jimmy quit, Jody got married\r\nA\r\n   I shoulda known we'd never get far\r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\nBm             A\r\n    Oh, when I look back now\r\nD                         G\r\n    That summer seemed to last forever\r\nBm           A\r\n    And if I had the choice\r\nD                    G\r\n    Yeah, I'd always wanna be there\r\nBm                 A               D\r\n    Those were the best days of my life\r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\nD        A\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nD\r\n    Ain't no use in complainin'\r\nA\r\n    When you got a job to do\r\nD\r\n    Spent my evenin's down at the drive in\r\nA\r\n    And that's when I met you, yeah\r\n \r\n[Chorus 2]\r\nBm                   A\r\n    Standin' on your mama's porch\r\nD                          G\r\n    You told me that you'd wait forever\r\nBm                   A\r\n    Oh, and when you held my hand\r\nD                      G\r\n    I knew that it was now or never\r\nBm                 A               D\r\n    Those were the best days of my life\r\n  D            A                               D       A\r\n         Oh yeah        Back in the summer of '69     Ohhh\r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\nF               Bb\r\n   Man, we were killin' time\r\n        C\r\nWe were young and restless\r\n   Bb\/D\r\nWe needed to unwind\r\nF          Bb                  C\r\n   I guess nothin' can last forever, forever no\r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\nD        A    x2\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nD\r\n   And now the times are changin'\r\nA\r\n   Look at everything that's come and gone\r\nD\r\n   Sometimes when I play that old six-string\r\nA\r\n   I think about you, wonder what went wrong\r\n \r\n[Chorus 3]\r\nBm                   A\r\n    Standin' on your mama's porch\r\nD                         G\r\n    You told me that it'd last forever\r\nBm                   A\r\n    Oh, and when you held my hand\r\nD                      G\r\n    I knew that it was now or never\r\nBm                 A               D\r\n    Those were the best days of my life\r\n \r\n[Outro]\r\n D             A                               D         A\r\n         Oh yeah        Back in the summer of '69     Uh-huh\r\n                      D         A\r\nIt was the summer of '69.    Oh yeah\r\n                   D          A\r\nMe and my baby in '69.       Ohhhhh, oh\r\nD                   A                          D\r\n         It was the summer, summer, summer of '69\r\n  A      D      A      D      A\r\nYeah\r\n \r\n(Fade out)\r\n","acf_video_url":"","acf_key_signature":"D Major","key_signature_slug":[],"artists":[],"artist_slug":[],"title":"Summer of 69","slug":"summer-of-69","dateCreated":"2026-07-07T11:44:50+00:00","post_type":"song"}