Summer Of '69
Bryan AdamsI got my first six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers
Was the of sixty-nine
Me and some guys from
Had a and we tried real
Jimmy quit, Jody got
I should've known we'd never get
Oh, when I look now
That summer seemed to forever
And if I had the
Yeah, 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 to do
Spent my down at the drive-in
And that's when I you, yeah
Standin' on your mama's
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh, and when you 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
We needed to
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
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
It was the summer, the summer,
the summer of sixty-nine, yeah
I think [“Summer of ’69” is] timeless because it’s about making love in the summertime. There is a slight misconception it’s about a year, but it’s not. “69” has nothing to do about a year, it has to do with a sexual position…At the end of the song, the lyric says that it’s me and my baby in a 69. You’d have to be pretty thick in the ears if you couldn’t get that lyric.