Tom: D
INTRO:
D D
VERSE: (Singls Strums for the 1st Verse)
D G A
I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
D
I remember just how good the feeling was
G A
Put it proudly in my car
D Bm
And I played my friends a thousand times
G D
My two song repertoire
G A A D
And I told my mom her oldest son was gonna be star
VERSE:
D
I bought all the Beatles records
G A
And I tried to sound like Paul
D G A
I bought all the old Buddy Holly’s, the 78s and all
D Bm G D
And I sat by my record player playing every song they played
G A D
And I watched them all on TV every move they made
CHORUS:
D G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
A
The dreamy sunny Sundays
D
All the magic moonlit nights
D
I was so busy in the backroom
G
Writing love songs to you
A
While you were changing your direction
G D
I never even knew
A D
That I was always one step behind you
VERSE:
D G A
‘66 seemed like the year I was really going somewhere
D G A
We were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair
D Bm G D
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
G A
That the guys and me were something more
A
Than just another band
VERSE:
D G A
And ‘69 in A well it came around so slow
D G A
But we were really making headway and writin’ lots of tunes
D Bm G D
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
G A D
'Cause the way the crowds yelled out for more we thought we had it made
CHORUS:
D G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
A D
Playing my guitar under bright and flashing lights
D G
I was so busy on the road singing love songs to you
A G D
While you were changing your direction I never even knew
A D
That I was always one step behind you.
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VERSE:
D G A
‘71 in Soho is when I met Suzanne
D G A
I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band
D Bm G D
And she came up to me later on and I took her by the hand
G A
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand
VERSE:
D G A
And she followed me to London through a hundred hotel rooms
D G A
Through a hundred record companies that didn’t like my tunes
D Bm G D
And she followed me 'til finally I sold my old guitar
G A D
And she tried to help me understand that I'd never be a star
CHORUS:
D G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
A
The dreamy sunny Sundays
D
All the magic moonlit nights
D
And though I’d never had the chance
G
Of making it with you
A G D
I thank the lord for giving me the little bit I knew
A D
And I will always be one step behind you
OUTRO:
D G
Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
A
Singing out my love songs... - FDE OUT -
