Summer of '69 chords by It’s a Cover Up

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D
A
Bm
G
Asus4
F
Bb
C

Verse 1
D 
A 
I got my first real six string,
bought it at the five and dime
D 
A 
Played it till my fingers bled,
was a summer of 69
D 
Me and some guys from school,
A 
had a band and we tried real hard
D 
Jimmy quit, Jody got married
A 
I should've known
we'd never get far
Bm 
A 
Oh, when I look back now
D 
G 
Life's almost seemed to last forever
Bm 
A 
But if I had the choice
D 
G 
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
Bm 
A 
Those were the best days
D 
A 
D 
of my life
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 
A 
Standing on your mama's porch
Asus4 
D 
You told me that
G 
you'd wait forever
Bm 
A 
Oh, and when you held my hand
D 
G 
I  knew that it was now or never
Bm 
A 
D 
A 
Those were the best days of my life
Asus4 
A 
D 
A 
Back in the summer   of 69
F 
Bb 
Then we were killing time
C 
We were young and restless
Bb 
We needed to unwind
F 
Bb 
C 
D 
I  guess nothing can last forever
A 
Asus4 
A 
D 
A 
Yeah!
D 
And now the times are changing
A 
Look at everything that's
going on
D 
Sometimes when I flip that old sex chain
A 
I  think about you,
wonder what went wrong
Bm 
A 
Standing on your mama's porch
D 
G 
You told me that it lasts forever
Bm 
A 
Oh, and when you held my hand
D 
G 
I  knew that it was now or never
Bm 
A 
D 
Those were the best days of my life
A 
Oh, yeah
D 
Back in the summer of 69
A 
Asus4 
A 
D 
Oh, was the summer of sixty -nine
A 
D 
Oh, me and my baby in sixty -nine
A 
Asus4 
A 
D 
A 
Oh, it was the summer, summer,
D 
A 
D 
A 
D 
summer of sixty -nine
You
D 
A 