“Summer of 69” è la traccia numero 6 di “Reckless”, quarto album del cantante “Bryan Adams”. Uscito nel 1984, questa canzone è il quarto singolo estratto dall’album. Bryan Adams è un cantautore, chitarrista, bassista e fotografo canadese. Nel 2008 Bryan si è classificato al 38esimo posto sulla lista “All-Time Top Artists”, nel 50º anniversario della “Billboard Hot 100 Charts”. Il 22 marzo 2011 Bryan ha ricevuto la stella sulla “Hollywood Walk of Fame”. “Summer of 69” ottenne un notevole successo in tutto il mondo, arrivando alla quinta posizione della Billboard Hot 100. Adams dichiarò che “Summer of 69” è una canzone “senza tempo”, perché parla di fare l’amore in estate. Il “69” del titolo non è un riferimento ad un anno, ma ha a che fare con la posizione sessuale del Kāma Sūtra.
Testo
I got my first real six string
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it til my fingers bled
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
But 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 – ya
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’n 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
Back in the summer of ‘69
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