Summer Of '69 (Acoustic)
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The version 2 of this tab is pretty accurate but lacked the picking of the chorus part,
i got from a live acoustic performance. It just makes the song sound better when using
acoustic.
Dsus2 (xx0230)
D (xx0232)
Dsus4 (xx0233)
Asus2 (x0220x)
A (x0222x)
Asus4 (x0223x)
F (133211)
Bb (x13331)
C (x32013)
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i got my first real six-string, bought it at the five & dime
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played it till my fingers bled, was the summer of sixty-nine
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me and some guys from school had a band and we tried real hard
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jimmy quit & jody got married, should have known we'd never get far
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but when i look back now the summer seemed to last forever
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and if i had the choice, yeah i'd always wanna be there
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those were the best days of my (life)
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(life)
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ain't no use in complaining when you got a job to do
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spend my evenings down at the drive-in, and thats when i met you, yeah
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standing on your mamas porch, you told me that you'd wait forever
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and when you held my hand i knew that it was now or never
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those were the best days of my (life)
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(life) oh yeah
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back in the summer of sixty-nine
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oh_______
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MID: man we were killing time, we were young and reckless, we needed to unwind
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i guess nothing can last forever, forever, no
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yeah!
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and now the times are changing, look at everything that's come and gone
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sometimes when i play that old six-string, i think about you wonder what went wrong
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standing on your mamas porch, you told me it'd last forever
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and when you held my hand i knew that it was now or never
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those were the best days of my (life)
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(life) oh yeah
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back in the summer of sixty-nine
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oh_______ it was the summer of sixty-nine oh
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yeah me and my baby in sixty-nine
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oh__________________ it was the
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summer sum-mer, summer of sixty-nine
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