I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far
Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you
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
Back in the summer of '69
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no
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 ya wonder what went wrong
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Bryan 最紅的單曲是「俠盜王子羅賓漢」
電影主題曲「Everything I do - I do it for you」。90
年代最紅的幾首浪漫搖滾一定有這首在內。另外「豪情三劍客」的主題曲是他和另外二位同樣以沙啞喉音著名的 Rod Steward 和 Sting
所唱的「All for love」，走的是熱血兄弟情風格。
I think 'Summer of '69' — I think it's 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.
I wish this little 'controversy' would just go away. First of all,
when Bryan and I were writing the song, it was originally called 'Best
Days Of My Life'. The words 'summer of '69' only appeared once, right
after 'played it 'til my fingers bled'. That was it! The song really
was about the summer of 1969! It took us a week or two to fine-tune the
lyric. At some point we realized that 'Summer Of '69' was a better
title, so we literally 'shoe-horned' that phrase into a few more places
in the song. At no time do I recall discussing sexual innuendo with
Bryan ' except for one little thing. When we recorded the demo in my
basement, towards the end of the song Bryan sang a little naughty bit:
'me and my baby in a '69'. We had a laugh about it at the time, and
Bryan decided to keep it when he did the final recording a month or two
later. Nobody seemed to notice, and that was the end of it until a few
years ago when Bryan started introducing the song in concert by saying,
'This song has nothing to do with the year 1969'. The audience reaction
was predictable. Let me qualify this by saying I don't pretend to speak
for Bryan. Two of us wrote the song. Maybe he was thinking about
something completely different ... but I was thinking about that
amazing summer when I turned 17. There were brand new vinyl albums
released by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, Janis
Joplin, The Band. It was awesome and I'll never forget it. Bryan Adams
is a great writer, a great singer, and a great friend. He's entitled to
his recollections as to what inspired the song 'Summer Of '69'. My
recollections just happen to be different than his.
