Bryan Adams - Summer of '69(Live at Live Aid, John F. Kennedy Stadium, 13th July 1985) (Live)
Composed by:Jim Vallance/Brian Adams
Produced by:John Kennedy/Bob Geldof/Jill Sinclair
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
Was the Summer of sixty-nine
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit Jody got married
I should've known we'd never get far
Oh when I look back now
That Summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain't no use in complainin'
When you've got a job to do
Spent my evenings down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you yeah
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 sixty-nine oh
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever forever no
Yeah
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you wonder what went wrong
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that it'd last 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 sixty-nine oh
It was the Summer of sixty-nine oh yeah
Me and my baby in sixty-nine oh
Yeah
It was the Summer the Summer
The Summer of sixty-nine yeah yeah
Yeah
Yeah
The Summer yeah