Bryan Adams

^D I got my first real six string
^A Bought it at the five and dime
^D Played it till my fingers bled
^A Was the summer of ’69

^D Me and some guys from school
^A Had a band and we tried real hard
^D Jimmy quit and Jody got married
^A shoulda known we’d never get far

^Hmi But when I ^A look back now
^D That summer seemed to ^G last forever
^Hmi And if I ^A had the choice
^D Ya - I’d always ^G wanna be there
^Hmi Those were the ^A best days of my ^D life

^D Ain’t no use in complainin’
^A When you got a job to do
^D Spent my evenin’s down at the drive-in
^A And that’s when I met you - ya

^Hmi Standin’ on your ^A mama’s porch
^D You told me that you’d ^G wait forever
^Hmi Oh and when you ^A held my hand
^D I knew that it was ^G now or never
^Hmi Those were the ^A best days of my ^D life

^F Man we were ^B killin’ time
We were ^C young and restless
We ^B needed to unwind
^F I guess ^B nothin’ can last fo ^C rever - forever, no...

^D And now the times are changin’
^A Look at everything that’s come and gone
^D Sometimes when I play that old six string
^A I think about ya’n wonder what went wrong

^Hmi Standin’ on your ^A mama’s porch
^D You told me it would ^G last forever
^Hmi Oh the way you ^A held my hand
^D I knew that it was ^G now or never
^Hmi Those were the ^A best days of my ^D life