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 - D riff (obě kytary) - 2 x

   D
1. I got my first real six-string
   A
   Bought it at the five-and-dime
   D
   Played it 'til my fingers bled
   A
   It was the summer of '69

2. Me and some guys from school
   Had a band and we tried real hard
   Jimmy quit, Joey got married
   I shoulda known we'd never get far

   Bm               A
R: Oh when I look back now
   D                          G
   That summer seem to last forever
   Bm              A
   And if I had the choice
   D                      G
   Ya - I'd always wanna be there
   Bm                     A
   Those were the best days of my life

3. 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

R: 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
   D          A                         D A
   (Oh yeah)  Back in the summer of 69’

   F                   B
*: Man we were killin' time
           C
   We were young and restless
      B
   We needed to unwind
   F                B                  C
   I guess nothin' can last forever, forever no  


4. And now the times are changin'
   Look at everything that's come and gone
   Somethimes when I play that old six-string
   I think about you wonder what went wrong

R:

   D            A                        D – A
   (Oh yeah)  Back in the summer of 69’
   D  A