Summer Of 69 Unplugged Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays497

Summer Of 69 Unplugged by Bryan Adams is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, Bm, G, F, Bb and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
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  			  D                                 A  

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|---3-----3-----3------3------------0-----2-----3------2-----0----2---| 
|-----2-----2------2-----2---2---2----2-----2-----3------2------------| 
|---------------------------------------2-----2------2-----2----2---2-| 
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Intro: * D A D A 

verse 1:  

D                               A  
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five & dime 
D                               A  
Played it til my fingers bled, was the summer of '69 
D                             A  
Me and some guys from school, had a band and we tried real hard 
D                                A  
Jimmy quit and Jody got married, shoulda known we'd never get far 




Bm        A              D                      G 
Oh when I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever 
Bm      A               D               G 
And if I had the choice, ya I'd always wanna be there 
Bm               A                  * D A D A  
Those were the best days of my life 


verse 2: 

D                         A  
Ain't no use complaining, when you gotta job to do 
D                                       A  
Spent my evenings down at the drive in, and that's when I met you, yeah! 


 

Bm                A            D                       G 
Standing on your mamma's porch, you told me that you'd wait forever 
Bm         A                 D                G 
And when I held your hand, I knew that it was now or never 
Bm               A                 * D A D A                        * D A D A 
Those were the best days of my life,........back in the summer of '69 


Bridge:  

F              Bb 
Man we were killin' time 
          C                         Bb 
We were young and reckless, we needed to unwind 
F      Bb                    C 
I guess nothing can last forever, forever, no... 


Instrumental Break - Play Intro 


verse 3: 
  
D                              A  
And now the times are changin', look at everything that's come and gone 
D                                       A 
Sometimes when I play my old six string, I think about you and wonder what went wrong 


 

Bm                A             D                      G 
Standing on your mamma's porch, you told me that you'd wait forever 
Bm         A                 D                G 
And when I held your hand, I knew that it was now or never 
Bm               A                 * D A D A                          * D A D A  
Those were the best days of my life,........back in the summer of '69  
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante