Summer Eighteen

G D Em7 C Sitting in the Bandstand on a warm July evening with my friends, G D Em7 C Drinking cheap cider with the smell of nicotine in the air. Em7 C G D Em7 We were naive enough to think that it would last forever, but C G D Now the care free days of yesterday are gone. N.C G D That was the summer, when we were younger, Em7 C We had no rules we just drank till we chundered, G D Smoking cheap cigarettes, sat around placing bets Em7 D on what might change but leave us with no regrets, G D That was the summer, when we were younger, Em7 C We had no rules we just drank till we chundered, G D Smoking cheap cigarettes, sat around placing bets Em7 D on what might change but leave us with no regrets, G D Em7 C The summer we won’t forget G D Em7 C G Take me back to when we jumped off the railway bridge into D Em7 C the cold river below, G D Em7 Sitting on the grass looking up at the sun, back when C G D all we knew was fun, Em7 C Take me back to when, Em7 C G D Em7 We were naive enough to think that it would last forever, but C G D Now the care free days of yesterday are gone. N.C G D That was the summer, when we were younger, Em7 C We had no rules we just drank till we chundered, G D Smoking cheap cigarettes, sat around placing bets Em7 D on what might change but leave us with no regrets, G D That was the summer, when we were younger, Em7 C We had no rules we just drank till we chundered, G D Smoking cheap cigarettes, sat around placing bets Em7 D on what might change but leave us with no regrets, D Em7 Didn’t know what would become of us, C Didn’t know what was ahead of us,Oh N.C G D That was the summer, when we were younger, Em7 C We had no rules we just drank till we chundered, G D Smoking cheap cigarettes, sat around placing bets Em7 D on what might change but leave us with no regrets, N.C G D That was the summer, when we were younger, Em7 C We had no rules we just drank till we chundered, G D Smoking cheap cigarettes, sat around placing bets Em7 D on what might change but leave us with no regrets, G D That was the summer, when we were younger, Em7 C We had no rules we just drank till we chundered, G D Smoking cheap cigarettes, sat around placing bets Em7 D on what might change but leave us with no regrets, 2x G D Em7 C The summer we won’t forget