Rock & Roll (i Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) Lyrics

Rock & Roll (i Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)

Rock And Roll (I gave the best years of my life)

 Mac Davis

 

 I can still remember

 When I bought my first guitar,

 Remember just how good the feeling

 To put it proudly in my car,

 And my fam'ly listened fifty times

 To my two song repertoire.

 I told my mom

 Her only son was gonna be a star.

 Bought all the Beatles records,

 I sounded just like Paul,

 I bought all the old Chuck Berry's 78's and all

 I sat by my record player

 Playing ev'ry note they played.

 I watched them all on TV

 Making ev'ry move they made.

 

 Rock and roll, I gave you all

 The best years of my life

 All the dreamy sunny Sundays,

 All the moonlit summer nights.

 I was so busy in the backroom

 Writing love songs to you

 While you were changing your direction

 And you never even knew

 That I was always just one step behind you.

 

 '66 seemed like the year

 I was really going somewhere;

  We were living in San Francisco

 BR With flowers in our hair,

 BR Singing songs of kindness

 BR So the world would understand,

 BR To the guys and me you were something more

 BR Than just another band.

 BR

 BR And then sixty-nine in L. A.

 BR Came around so soon,

 BRWe were really making headway

 BRAnd writing lots of tunes,

 BRAnd we must have played

 BRThe wildest stuff that we had ever played,

 BRAnd the way the crowds cried out for us,

 BRWe thought we had it made.

 BR

 BRRock and roll, I gave you all

 BRThe best years of my life,

 BRAll the crazy, lazy, young days,

 BRAll the magic moon at night.

 BRI was so busy on the road

 BRSinging love songs to you,

 BRwhile you were changing your direction

 BRAnd you never even knew

 BRThat I was always just one step behind you.

 BR

 BRSeventy-one and so alone

 BRWhen I met Susanne,

 BRI was trying to go it solo

 BRWith someone else's band.

 BRShe came up to me later

 BRAnd I took her by the hand,

 BRAnd I told her all my troubles

 BRAnd she seemed to understand.

 BR

 BRAnd she followed me through London

 BRThrough a hundred hotel rooms,

 BRThrough a hundred record companies

 BRWho didn't like my tunes;

 BRShe followed me when finally

 BRI sold my old guitar,

 BRShe tried to help me

 BRUnderstand I'd never be a star.

 BR

 BRRock and roll, I gave you

 BRAll the best years of my life,

 BRAll the dreamy, sunny Sundays,

 BRAll the moonlit summer nights,

 BRAnd though I never knew

 BRThe magic of making it with you,

 BRThat I thank the Lord for giving me

 BRThe little bit I knew,

 BRAnd I was always just one step behind you.

 BR

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