SUMMER OF ‘69 WORDS & MUSIC: BRYAN ADAMS AND JIM VALLANCE ‘©COPIRIGHT 988 RVING MUSIC INC.” DAM COMMUNICATIONS INC AND CALYPSO TOONZ RONDOR MUSIC [ONDON| 11D, 10 PARSONS GREEN, LONOO? ‘Al Rights Reserved. Inlernational Copyr aN Sec Moderately Bright 4= 138 D first real six ~ string; _ bought it at the five and dime; played — it til my fin - gers— bled; was the sum-mer ofVerse: 8 ty six - ty nine, 1.Me_ and some guys from school == had a band and we tried real hard, Jim=my quit and Jo- dy got = mar - ried; I shoulda known — we'd_nev-er get far. ‘i feet = — et — Oh, when 1 look back now, — that sum - mer seemed toeS best for yeah, — days of Vd al - ways my — Bm ae had wan - life. the choice, — Those were theyoung andrest - less, we needed to___un-wind. I guessof Back in the sum-mer of we a Verse 2: Ain't no use in complainin’ when you got a job to do. Spent my evenin’s down at the drive-in, and that’s when I met you. Standin’ on your mama’s porch, you told me that you'd wait forever. Oh, and when you held my hand, I knew that it was now or never. Those were thebest days of my life. Verse 3: And now the times are changin’; look at everything that’s come and gone. Sometimes when | play that old six-string | think about you; wonder what went wrong. Standin’ on your mama's porch, you told me it'd last forever. Oh, and when you held my hand, | knew that it was now or never. Those were the hect dawe nf mw life