Summer Of '69 chords by Steve Hofmeyr

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Verse 1
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I got my first real six -string
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Bought it at five and dime
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Played it till my fingers bled
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Was the summer of 69
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Me and some guys from school
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Had a band and we tried real hard
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Jimmy quit, Jody got married
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Should've known we'd never get far
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Oh, when I look back now
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That summer seems to last forever
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And if I had a choice
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Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
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Those were the best days
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of my life
Ain't no use in complaining
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when you got a job to do
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Stand my evening down at the drive -in,
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and that's where I met you, yeah
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Standing on your mama's porch,
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you told me that you'd wait forever
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Oh, when you held my hand,
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I  knew that it was now or never
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Those were the best
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days of my life
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Back in the summer of 69
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Man, we were killing time,
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we were young and restless
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You need it to unwind
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I guess nothing can last forever
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Forever, no
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And now the times are changing
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Look at everything that's
come and gone
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Sometimes when I play
that old six -string
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I think about you wondering
what went wrong
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Standing on your mama's porch
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You told me it would last forever
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All the way you held my hand
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I knew that it was now or never
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Those were the best
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days of my life
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Back in the summer of 69
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Yeah
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Back in the summer of 69 you