Summer Of '69

Bryan Adams

Lyrics

I got my first (1)____ six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers (2)____
Was the (3)______ of sixty-nine

Me and some guys from (4)______
Had a (5)____ and we tried real (6)____
Jimmy quit, Jody got (7)_______
I should've known we'd never get (8)___

Oh, when I look (9)____ now
That summer seemed to (10)____ forever
And if I had the (11)______
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 (12)___ to do
Spent my (13)________ down at the drive-in
And that's when I (14)___ you, yeah

Standin' on your mama's (15)_____
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh, and when you (16)____ 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 (17)________
We needed to (18)______
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 (19)_____

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

Answers
(1) real (2) bled (3) summer (4) school (5) band (6) hard (7) married (8) far (9) back (10) last (11) choice (12) job (13) evenings (14) met (15) porch (16) held (17) restless (18) unwind (19) wrong