Summer of '69

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4  4  4    4    4    5    4
I got my first real six-string

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Bought it at the 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 and Joey got married

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Shoulda known we'd never get far

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Oh when I look back now

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That summer seemed to last forever

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And if I had the choice

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Yeah , I'd always wanna be there

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Those were the best days of my life

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Ain't no use in complainin'

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When you got a job to do

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Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in

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And that's when I met you yeah

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Standin' on your Mama's porch

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You told me that you'd wait forever

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Oh and when you held my hand

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I knew that it was now or never

4      4    4  -3    4   -4 -3  4
Those were the best days of my life

4    4   4   4  4   4  6 4 4
Back in the summer of 69

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Man we were killin' time

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We were young and restless

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We needed to unwind

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I guess nothin' can last forever, forever, no

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And now the times are changin'

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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, wonder what went wrong

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Standin' on your Mama's porch

5    5   5   5    5     6  -5 4 -4
You told me that it'd last forever

4   4   4   -3   4   -4
Oh when you held my hand

5  5    5    5  5   6 -5  4  -4
I knew that it was now or never

4      4    4  -3    4   -4 -3  4
Those were the best days of my life

4    4   4   4  4   4  6 4 4
Back in the summer of 69

4   4   4   4  4  4  6 4 4
It was the summer of 69

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me n my baby in 69

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It was the summer, the summer, summer of 69


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