Summer of '69 Lyrics

by Brian Adams
1) I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69
2) Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit, Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far
3) Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last
forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
4) Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenings down at the
drive-in
And that's when I met you
5) 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 the best days of my life
oh yeah
Back in the summer of '69 Ohhhhh
7) And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and
gone
Sometimes when I play that old
six-string
Think about you wonder what went
wrong
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that it last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Ohh yeeaahh.... Back in the
summer of '69
uhh huh...it was the summer of 69
Ohhh Yeeaahh....me and my baby
in 69
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh...ho....
it was the summer....the summer,
the summer of 69…YEAH
a) Put the highlighted verbs in the
infinitive.
b) In 3) what does the word ‘last’
mean?
c) In 4) what does the word
‘down’ mean?

6) Man we were killin' time

We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever -
forever, no
Yeah
d) What do
you think
‘back in
the
summer’ means?

Speaking

 Do you play a musical

instrument?
 Do you have friends who
play in a band? What do you
think about it?
 What is a six-string?

LEXIS translation
Useful Language

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